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).
Verse 5.10.5
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; strī—after His wife; lobhī—greedy; bibhryāt—may maintain; sītām—Sītā; rāmaḥ—Rāma; 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.