Text 44
yasyāmalaṁ divi yaśaḥ prathitaṁ rasāyāṁ
bhūmau ca te bhuvana-maṅgala dig-vitānam
mandākinīti divi bhogavatīti cādho
gaṅgeti ceha caraṇāmbu punāti viśvam
yasya — whose; amalam — spotless; divi — in heaven; yaśaḥ — fame; prathitam — disseminated; rasāyām — in the subterranean region; bhūmau — on the earth; ca — and; te — Your; bhuvana — for all the worlds; maṅgala — O creator of good fortune; dik — in or of the universal directions; vitānam — the expansion, or decorative canopy; mandākinī iti — called Mandākinī; divi — in heaven; bhogavatī iti — called Bhogavatī; ca — and; adhaḥ — below; gaṅgā iti — called Gaṅgā; ca — and; iha — here, on the earth; caraṇa — from Your feet; ambu — the water; punāti — purifies; viśvam — the whole universe.
My dear Lord, You are the symbol of everything auspicious. Your transcendental name and fame is spread like a canopy all over the universe, including the higher, middle and lower planetary systems. The transcendental water that washes Your lotus feet is known in the higher planetary systems as the Mandākinī River, in the lower planetary systems as the Bhogavatī and in this earthly planetary system as the Ganges. This sacred, transcendental water flows throughout the entire universe, purifying wherever it goes.
This translation is based on Śrīla Prabhupāda’s Kṛṣṇa. Śrīdhara Svāmī mentions that the word dig-vitānam indicates that Lord Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental glories spread throughout the universe like a cooling canopy over the universal directions. In other words, the whole world can find shelter under the cooling shade of the Lord’s lotus feet. Thus the Lord is bhuvana-maṅgala, the symbol of everything auspicious for this world.