• arka-kara-āraktam — reddened by the sun's rays
  Compound: arka (sun) + kara (ray) + ārakta (reddened). The upper lip is sun-touched cloud-color. Bhāgavatam's nature-imagery is precise: pinks, reds, the colors of dawn — all the colors of Vraja's sky are catalogued in the demon's body too.
• uttarā-hanuvat — like the upper jaw
  Compound: uttara (upper) + hanu (jaw) + vat (like). Anatomical precision plus simile-suffix. The boys, even in their playful interpretation, see clearly — Vraja-rasa is not blurry; it is poetic comparison.
• adharā-hanuvat — like the lower jaw
  Compound: adhara (lower) + hanu (jaw) + vat (like). The pair uttarā/adharā creates a verse-internal symmetry — sky-and-shadow, upper-and-lower. Aghāsura is symmetrically described because Kṛṣṇa's līlā has aesthetic structure even in its parodies.
• tat-praticchāyayā — by its reflection
  Compound: tat (that) + praticchāyā (reflection). The 'reflection' of the cloud — a doubled image. Gauḍīyas note the recurrence of pratibhāsa / praticchāyā imagery in Bhāgavatam: māyā is always a reflection of the real.

• What situation in my life am I refusing to slowly examine for what it actually is?
• Do I let honest analysis happen, or do I shut conversations down once they get uncomfortable?

Picture children matching cloud-colors to a creature's lips — pink and red, sun and shadow. Their analysis is correct in every detail; only the conclusion they should draw, they will not. Vraja teaches: accurate perception of danger is compatible with absolute fearlessness, when Kṛṣṇa is the company.