When the Lord appeared as Vāmana and stepped over the earth with his right foot, the water which entered from outside, by piercing the covering of the universe with the big toe of his left foot, tinted red from the color of Lord’s feet and the kuṁkuma coming from the water that washed his lotus feet, which purifies by its touch all sins of the world but remains pure, not known by any other name, was called Bhagavat-padī, “water coming from the foot of the Lord.” After a long time, a thousand yugas, the river descended to Dhruva-loka, which then became known as Viṣṇu-pada, the abode of Viṣṇu. The Seventeenth Chapter describes the descent of Gaṅgā to earth, the happiness of Bhauma-svarga and the service of Saṅkarṣaṇa and Rudra. After describing the splendor of the mountains surrounding Sumeru like filaments, Śuka now describes the very long stream of the Gaṅgā, the crest jewel of all splendors, by relating how Gaṅgā made her appearance. At the time of Vāmana avatāra (tatra), by stepping over the earth with his right foot (vikramataḥ) and from throwing his left foot in the air, he cause all places up to the top of the universe to tremble, up to the layer of prakṛti (where the guṇas are pacified), as related by Brahmā: trisāmyasadanād urukampayānam. (SB 2.7.4) Thus the spiritual steam of water of the Kāraṇa Ocean, outside of the eight layers of the universe, descended to Dhruva-loka (divaḥ mūrdhani). The water was colored red from the kuṁkuma and the red color of the Lord’s feet, arising from the water used to wash the Lord’s feet. The touch of this water destroys the contamination of sin, but the water remains free of contamination (amalā). It was called by the name Bhagavatpadī, because at that time it was not known by other names (vaco anupalakṣaṇam) such as Bhāgīrathī or Jāhnavī. It then fell on Dhruva-loka which (yat) became known as Viṣṇu-pada