Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 46 - Verse 6
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 6 Sanskrit: धारयन्त्यतिकृच्छ्रेण प्राय: प्राणान् कथञ्चन ।प्रत्यागमनसन्देशैर्बल्लव्यो मे मदात्मिका: ॥ ६ ॥ ITRANS: dhārayanty ati-kṛcchreṇaprāyaḥ prāṇān kathañcanapratyāgamana-sandeśairballavyo me mad-ātmikāḥ Translation: Simply because I have promised to return to them, My fully devoted cowherd girlfriends struggle to maintain their lives somehow or other. Purport: According to Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī, although the gopīs of Vṛndāvana were apparently married, their husbands actually had no contact whatsoever with their supremely attractive qualities of form, taste, fragrance, sound, touch and so on....