clad in yellow
'Yellow-clad' — the yellow silk (pītāmbara) is one of Kṛṣṇa's identifying marks; even the newborn appears clothed in this divine yellow.
पीतवासा घनश्यामः कुञ्चिताञ्चितकुन्तलः ।सुव्यक्तव्यक्ताभरणः सूतिकागृहभूषणः॥
pītavāsā ghanaśyāmaḥ kuñcitāñcitakuntalaḥ ·suvyaktavyaktābharaṇaḥ sūtikāgṛhabhūṣaṇaḥ
clad in yellow
'Yellow-clad' — the yellow silk (pītāmbara) is one of Kṛṣṇa's identifying marks; even the newborn appears clothed in this divine yellow.
dark as a rain-laden cloud
'Dark as a rain-cloud' — the deep blue-black complexion is one of the Bhāgavata's most-used images, signalling divinity and the monsoon's life-giving promise.
with curling, graceful locks
With curled and ornamented locks — the birth form's hair is naturally curled and radiant, prefiguring the celebrated kuntala-curls of his youth.
adorned with clearly-manifest ornaments
Whose ornaments are simultaneously perceptible and transcendent — the birth form wears divine jewels both real to the senses and beyond ordinary perception.
the ornament of the birth-chamber
'Ornament of the birthing room' — the prison cell, the most inauspicious of places, becomes the most luminous room in creation when the Lord appears within it.