Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.18.15, English translation, including word-by-word: This text represents a Vaishnava scripture which narrates the life Krishna, It was composed in seventeen cantos by Garga Muni: an ancient sage and priest of the Yadu dynasty having. This is verse 4 of Chapter 18 (The Names and Worship of Sri Yamuna) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

मध्याह्ने चापि सन्ध्यायाम् सन्ध्या-वन्दन-तत्-परः

madhyāhne cāpi sandhyāyām sandhyā-vandana-tat-paraḥ

समाप्ते नियमे राजन् कालिन्दी-तीरम् आस्थितः

samāpte niyame rājan kālindī-tīram āsthitaḥ

madhyāhne—at midday; cāpi—and; sandhyāyām—at sunset; sandhyā-vandana-tat-paraḥ—offering obeisances; samāpte—completed; niyame—restriction; rājanO king; kālindī-tīram—on the Yamunā's shore; āsthitaḥ—situated.

English translation of verse 4.18.15:

At midday and sunset one should again offer obeisances to the Yamunā. O king, when this vow of worshiping the Yamunā is completed, one should stand at the Yamunā's shore.

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