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Krsna’s Presence
neyam Sobhisyate tatra
yathedanim gadadhara
tvat-padair ankita bhati
sva-laksana-vilaksitah
O Gadadhara [Krsna], 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.

—Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.8.39
There are certain particular marks on the feet of the Lord which dis-
tinguish the Lord from others. The marks of a flag, thunderbolt, and in-
strument 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 Hastinapura
was thus marked while Lord Sri Krsna was there with the Pandavas, and
the kingdom of the Pandavas thus flourished by such auspicious signs.
Kuntidevi points out these distinguished features and is afraid of ill luck
in the absence of the Lord.
In the Canakya-sloka, the instructions of the great moralist Canakya
Pandita, there is this very nice verse:
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