Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.4.15, 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 3 of Chapter 4 (The Coronation-Bathing of Shri Krishna) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.4.15
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
द्यु-गङ्गा-जल-पातेन
कृष्ण-स्नानेन मैथिल
तत्र वै मानसि गङ्गा
गिरौ जाताघ-नाशिनी
dyu-gaṅgā-jala-pātena
kṛṣṇa-snānena maithila
tatra vai mānasi gaṅgā
girau jātāgha-nāśinī
dyu—celestial; gaṅgā—Ganges; jala—water; pātena—falling; kṛṣṇa—Lord Kṛṣṇa; snānena—bathing; maithila—O king of Mithilā; tatra—there; vai—indeed; mānasī gaṅgā—the Mānasa-gaṅgā; girau—on Govardhana Hill; jāta—manifested; agha—sins; nāśinī—destroying.
English translation of verse 3.4.15:
O king of Mithilā, the celestial Gaṅgā water that bathed Lord Kṛṣṇa on Govardhana Hill became the Mānasa-gaṅgā lake, which destroys all sins.