gopī-candana-tale - under heaps of gopī-candana (yellowish clay used for tilaka); āchila - came; ḍiṅgāte - in a boat; madhva-ācārya - Madhvācārya; sei kṛṣṇa - that Kṛṣṇa Deity; pāilā - got; kona-mate - somehow or other.

Madhvācārya had somehow or other acquired the Deity of Kṛṣṇa from a heap of gopī-candana that had been transported in a boat.