In plain words
With the digit of the crescent moon sparkling on His crown, with a cluster of matted locks in all their beauty, with the sheen of the heavenly river flowing in those locks, with the splendid eye upon His brow, with a throat as black as the dark nēreḍu fruit, with a serpent bracelet on His hand, with the elephant's hide wound about His waist, with ash smeared over His whole body, with a large vermilion mark drawn on His forehead, with lips reddened by betel, shining in the six śāstras, laughing at the dark lilies and outdoing them, with a body of gleaming dusky hue, the One who dwells on Kailāsa appeared before the eyes.
Embodiments of Prema! On the occasion of these Dasara festivities, every day many people have been speaking in many ways about the nature of Īśvara. It is everyone's common belief that Īśvara is simply one who comes adorned with matted locks and snakes. This is not the form of Īśvara. Though Īśvara's natural form pervades everywhere, devotees, each through their own delusions, have gone on describing His form in this way. The weakness of the Bhāratīyas is of this kind. Even the divine forms they themselves have conceived, even the images of the deities, they regard as no more than beggars of a sort.