Text 44
akhaṇḍa-maṇḍalo vyomni
rarājoḍu-gaṇaiḥ śaśī
yathā yadu-patiḥ kṛṣṇo
vṛṣṇi-cakrāvṛto bhuvi
akhaṇḍa — unbroken; maṇḍalaḥ — its sphere; vyomni — in the sky; rarāja — shone forth; uḍu-gaṇaiḥ — along with the stars; śaśī — the moon; yathā — as; yadu-patiḥ — the master of the Yadu dynasty; kṛṣṇaḥ — Lord Kṛṣṇa; vṛṣṇi-cakra — by the circle of Vṛṣṇis; āvṛtaḥ — surrounded; bhuvi — upon the earth.
The full moon shone in the sky, surrounded by stars, just as Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of the Yadu dynasty, shone brilliantly on the earth, surrounded by all the Vṛṣṇis.
Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī explains that in Vṛndāvana the full moon is eternally risen, and this full moon is like the full manifestation of the Absolute Truth, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. When He was manifest on earth, Lord Kṛṣṇa was surrounded by prominent members of the Vṛṣṇi dynasty such as Nanda, Upananda, Vasudeva and Akrūra.