Devanagari
चराचरौको भगवन्महीध्र-
महीन्द्रबन्धुं सलिलोपगूढम् ।
किरीटसाहस्रहिरण्यशृङ्ग-
माविर्भवत्कौस्तुभरत्नगर्भम् ॥ ३० ॥
Verse text
carācarauko bhagavan-mahīdhram
ahīndra-bandhuṁ salilopagūḍham
kirīṭa-sāhasra-hiraṇya-śṛṅgam
āvirbhavat kaustubha-ratna-garbham
Synonyms
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.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Brahmā saw the Lord as the friend of Ananta, just as Malaya Mountain shelters the king of snakes. He was embraced by the Garbhodaka Ocean just as that mountain is covered with streams, and he wore crowns like a thousand mountain pinnacles of gold, holding on his form the Kaustubha gem, just as the Malaya Mountain has one shining peak and contains mines full of jewels.
Having compared the Lord to a sandalwood tree, he now compares the Lord to a sandalwood mountain, to show that the Lord is his own shelter. The Lord is the Malaya Mountain (mahīdhram), the shelter of moving and non-moving entities. He is the friend of the king of snakes Ananta, just as the mountain is the friend of the king of snakes. He is embraced by water—the Garbhodaka or the Milk Ocean, just as the Malaya Mountain is decorated with streams. He has thousands of golden pinnacles with his thousands of crowns. Malaya Mountain is famous for its one golden pinnacle. On his form is the Kaustubha jewel, just as Malaya Mountain has many jewel mines.