Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

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चराचरौको भगवन्महीध्रमहीन्द्रबन्धुं सलिलोपगूढम्
किरीटसाहस्रहिरण्यशृङ्गमाविर्भवत्कौस्तुभरत्नगर्भम्

carācarauko bhagavan-mahīdhram
ahīndra-bandhuṁ salilopagūḍham
kirīṭa-sāhasra-hiraṇya-śṛṅgam
āvirbhavat kaustubha-ratna-garbham

WORD BY WORD

cara — moving animals; acara — nonmoving trees; okaḥ — the place or situation; bhagavat — the Personality of Godhead; mahīdhram — the mountain; ahi-indra — Śrī Anantadeva; bandhum — friend; salila — water; upagūḍham — submerged; kirīṭa — helmets; sāhasra — thousands; hiraṇya — gold; śṛṅgam — peaks; āvirbhavat — manifested; kaustubha — the Kaustubha jewel; ratna-garbham — ocean.;

TRANSLATION

Like a great mountain, the Lord stands as the abode for all moving and nonmoving living entities. He is the friend of the snakes because Lord Ananta is His friend. As a mountain has thousands of golden peaks, so the Lord was seen with the thousands of golden-helmeted hoods of Ananta-nāga; and as a mountain is sometimes filled with jewels, so also His transcendental body was fully decorated with valuable jewels. As a mountains is sometimes submerged in the ocean water, so the Lord is sometimes submerged in the water of devastation.

PURPORT

This verse has not purport by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svāmi Prabhupāda.

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