22. Beauty In Krṣṇa's Presence
ne yam śobhiṣyate tatra yathedānīm gadādhara tvat-padair aṇikitā bhāti sva-lakṣaṇa-vilakṣitaḥ
O Gadādhara [Krṣṇa], our kingdom is now being marked by the impressions of Your feet, and therefore it appears beautiful. But when You leave, it will no longer be so.
— Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.39
There are certain particular marks on the feet of the Lord which distinguish the Lord from others. The marks of a flag, thunderbolt, and instrument to drive an elephant, and also an umbrella, lotus, disc, etc., are on the bottom of the Lord's feet. These marks are impressed upon the soft dust of the land where the Lord traverses. The land of Hastināpura was thus marked while Lord Śrī Krṣṇa was there with the Pāṇḍavas, and the kingdom of the Pāṇḍavas thus flourished by such auspicious signs. Kuntīdevī points out these distinguished features and is afraid of ill luck in the absence of the Lord.
In the  Cāṇakya-śloka , the instructions of the great moralist Cāṇakya Paṇḍita, there is this very nice verse:
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