Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.8.39, 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 8 (In the Story of the Yajna-sitas, the Glories of Ekadashi) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.8.39
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
रात्रौ जागरणं कृत्वै-
कादशी-व्रत-कृन् नरः
न पश्यति यमं रौद्रं
युक्तः पाप-शतैर् अपि
rātrau jāgaraṇaṃ kṛtvai-
kādaśī-vrata-kṛn naraḥ
na paśyati yamaṃ raudraṃ
yuktaḥ pāpa-śatair api
rātrau—at night; jāgaraṇam—staying awake; kṛtva—doing; ekādaśī-vrata-kṛt—following ekādaśī; naraḥ—a person; na—not; paśyati—sees; yamam—Yamarāja; raudram—angry; yuktaḥ—engaged; pāpa-śataiḥ—with hundreds of sins; api—even.
English translation of verse 4.8.39:
Even though contaminated with hundreds of sins, a person who keeps a nighttime vigil while following the vow of ekādaśī never sees angry Yamarāja.