Verse Text
yathā –
kṛṣṇasya maṇḍana-tatir maṇi-kuṇḍalādyā
nītāṅga-saṅgatim alaṅkṛtaye varāṅgi |
śaktā babhūva na manāg api tad-vidhāne
sā pratyuta svayam analpam alaṅkṛtāsīt ||339||
Translation
O beautiful woman! The jeweled earrings and other ornaments in contacting His body cannot at all function as ornaments to enhance His beauty. Rather those ornaments all become decorated by His body and have thus increased their beauty.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
Only by being enhanced by the beauty of Kṛṣṇa can they function as ornaments. This will be confirmed in verse 360: aṅgair evābharaṇa-paṭalī bhūṣitā dogdhi bhūṣām: the ornaments fulfill their function as ornaments by ornamenting His limbs.
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
The ornaments on the body of Kṛṣṇa were not actually enhancing His beauty, but just the reverse—the ornaments were beautified by Kṛṣṇa.