cara - moving animals; acara - nonmoving trees; okaḥ - the place or situation; bhagavat - the Personality of Godhead; mahīdhram - the mountain; ahi-indra - Śrī Anantadeva; bandhum - friend; salila - water; upagūḍham - submerged; kirīṭa - helmets; sāhasra - thousands; hiraṇya - gold; śṛṅgam - peaks; āvirbhavat - manifested; kaustubha - the Kaustubha jewel; ratna-garbham - ocean.

Like a great mountain, the Lord stands as the abode for all moving and nonmoving living entities. He is the friend of the snakes because Lord Ananta is His friend. As a mountain has thousands of golden peaks, so the Lord was seen with the thousands of golden-helmeted hoods of Ananta-nāga; and as a mountain is sometimes filled with jewels, so also His transcendental body was fully decorated with valuable jewels. As a mountains is sometimes submerged in the ocean water, so the Lord is sometimes submerged in the water of devastation.