Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.10.5, 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 10 (The Stories of the Washerman, Weaver, and Florist) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

नाहं बिभर्मि त्वां दुष्टां
उषतीं पर-वेष्म-गाम्
स्त्री-लोभी बिभ्र्यात् सीतां
रामो नाहं भजे पुनः

nāhaṃ bibharmi tvāṃ duṣṭāṃ
uṣatīṃ para-veṣma-gām
strī-lobhī bibhryāt sītāṃ
rāmo nāhaṃ bhaje punaḥ

na—not; aham—I; bibharmi—maintain; tvam—you; duṣṭam—wicked; uṣatīm—at sunrise; para-veṣma-gām—returning from another's house; strīafter His wife; lobhī—greedy; bibhryāt—may maintain; sītām—Sītā; rāmaḥRāma; na—not; aham—I; bhaje—do; punaḥ—again.

English translation of verse 5.10.5:

I will not maintain you, a sinner that returns at dawn from another's house.

Rāmacandra, who is greedy to enjoy with His wife, may continue to maintain His Sītā, but I am not like Him.

Like what you read? Consider supporting this website: