• tāla - trayam — as long as three palm trees
  Compound: tāla (palm tree) + trayam (three). The bow of Kaṁsa (SB 10.42), broken before the wrestling. The measure is given in tāla — palm-tree-height — because Vraja measures in trees, not in cubits.
• ibha - rāṭ — a royal elephant
  Compound: ibha (elephant) + rāṭ (king). The simile pairs with verse 24's mṛga-adhipa: lion-king in 24, elephant-king in 25. Vraja's metaphor-bank is animal, not architectural.
• babhañja — He broke
  Perfect of √bhañj. Same verb used of the snapping of any twig — the Bhāgavatam keeps the lexicon of effort minimal to dramatize the absence of effort.
• sapta - aham — for seven days
  Compound: sapta (seven) + ahan (day). The Govardhana-līlā's duration (SB 10.25). Gauḍīya tradition reads sapta-aham as the cosmological seven — the duration of a Brahmā's night, the seven prakṛtis — held up on a child's smallest finger.
• ekena-hastena — with one hand
  Instrumental of eka (one) + hasta (hand). The single-finger detail of Govardhana — vāmena kara-pallavena (10.25) — is here softened to ekena hastena. The miracle is preserved, the cowherd-tongue's modesty intact.
• girim — a mountain
  Accusative of giri — Govardhana, but unnamed. Verse 18 already named girim; here it returns. Gauḍīyas mark the repetition: the hill that the canto's earlier chapter celebrates as Hari Himself (10.24.35) is here recited by Nanda as a feat-of-the-son.

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  His Holiness Radha Govinda Swami· English

• What iconic deed of Kṛṣṇa would you happily mention in conversation today?
• Where do you let secular embarrassment silence the language of devotion?

Bows snapped like sticks, mountains held seven days on one hand — Nanda recites these and his demigod-theory (verse 23) wavers. Vātsalya cannot reconcile a deva of any rank with the ease of these acts, so the chapter is setting up Uddhava's correction (verses 31-43) without forcing Nanda to receive it yet.