Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.4.13, 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 5 of Chapter 4 (The Journey to Shri Mathura) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.4.13
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-भगवान् उवाच
वचनं मे स्व-निगमं
दूरी-कर्तुं क्षमो ऽस्म्य् अहम्
भक्तानां वचनं राधे
दूरी-कर्तुं न च क्षमः
śrī-bhagavān uvāca
vacanaṃ me sva-nigamaṃ
dūrī-kartuṃ kṣamo 'smy aham
bhaktānāṃ vacanaṃ rādhe
dūrī-kartuṃ na ca kṣamaḥ
śrī-bhagavān uvāca—the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; vacanam—words; me—of Me; sva-nigamam—assertion; dūrī-kartum—far away; kṣamaḥ—am able; asmy—am; aham—I; bhaktānām—of the devotees; vacanam—the words; rādhe—O Rādhā; dūrī-kartum—to throw far away; na—not; ca—and; kṣamaḥ—able.
English translation of verse 5.4.13:
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: I can break My own vow, but I have no power to break the vow of My devotees.