Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.15.8

dhanyeyam adya dharani trina-virudhas tvat-

pada-spriso druma-latah karajabhimrishtah

nadyo 'drayah khaga-mrigah sadayavalokair

gopyo 'ntarena bhujayor api yat-spriha srih

SYNONYMS

dhanya -- fortunate; iyam -- this; adya -- now; dharani -- the earth; trina -- her grasses; virudhah -- and bushes; tvat -- Your; pada -- of the feet; sprisah -- receiving the touch; druma -- the trees; latah -- and creepers; kara-ja -- by Your fingernails; abhimrishtah -- touched; nadyah -- the rivers; adrayah -- and mountains; khaga -- the birds; mrigah -- and animals; sadaya -- merciful; avalokaih -- by Your glances; gopyah -- the gopis; antarena -- in between; bhujayoh -- Your two arms; api -- indeed; yat -- for which; spriha -- maintains the desire; srih -- the goddess of fortune.

TRANSLATION

This earth has now become most fortunate, because You have touched her grass and bushes with Your feet and her trees and creepers with Your fingernails, and because You have graced her rivers, mountains, birds and animals with Your merciful glances. But above all, You have embraced the young cowherd women between Your two arms -- a favor hankered after by the goddess of fortune herself.

PURPORT

The word adya, "now," indicates the time of Lord Balarama and Lord Krishna's appearance on the earth. In His form of Varaha, Lord Krishna personally saved the earth, and, indeed, the earth is understood to rest perpetually on the potency of Sesha. Both Varaha and Sesha are expansions of Balarama, who is Himself an expansion of Lord Krishna, the original Personality of Godhead. Lord Krishna's statement that "this earth has now become most fortunate" (dhanyeyam adya dharani) indicates that nothing can equal the blessings of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His personal form as Krishna, appearing simultaneously with His plenary expansion, Balarama. The compound word karajabhimrishtah, "touched by Your fingernails," indicates that as Krishna and Balarama would move through the forest They would pick fruits and flowers from the trees, bushes and creepers and use this paraphernalia in Their pleasure pastimes. Sometimes They would break leaves off the plants and use them with the flowers to decorate Their bodies.

Krishna and Balarama would glance lovingly and mercifully at all the rivers, hills and creatures in Vrindavana. But the blessing received by the gopis -- being embraced directly between the Lord's arms -- was the supreme benediction, desired even by the goddess of fortune herself. The goddess of fortune, who lives in Vaikuntha on the chest of Lord Narayana, once desired to be embraced on the chest of Sri Krishna, and thus she performed severe austerities to achieve this blessing. Sri Krishna informed her that her actual place was in Vaikuntha and that it was not possible for her to dwell upon His chest in Vrindavana. Therefore she begged Krishna to allow her to remain on His chest in the form of a golden line, and He granted her this benediction. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura recounts this incident from the Puranas.

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