• utpatya — jumping (up)
  Absolutive of ut-√pat (to fly upward). The verb encodes the verticality Jarāsandha failed to anticipate — the asura's siege is horizontal, the Lord's exit is upward. A small grammatical icon of transcendence.
• daśa-eka-yojanāt — from eleven yojanas (height)
  Compound: daśa (ten) + eka (one) + yojana (a unit, slightly over eight miles). Sūta gives the precise measurement to underline the physical impossibility — and therefore the līlā-character — of the leap.
• dahyamāna-taṭāt — from the burning slopes
  Compound: dahyamāna (being burnt) + taṭa (slope, side). Present passive participle marks the slopes as still actively burning at the moment of the leap. The two Lords depart through the very element meant to kill Them — a Vaiṣṇava emblem of agni-vihārī.
• nipetatuḥ adhaḥ bhuvi — They fell down to the ground
  Phrase: ni-√pat in perfect dual + adhaḥ (downward) + bhuvi (locative of bhū, earth). The verb 'fell' is technically descriptive but bhakti-rasa reads it as 'descended' — the same root used for avatāras alighting on earth.

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• What 'jump' from a burning peak would Kṛṣṇa take that you're currently refusing?
• Where might dropping straight down be the only correct direction?

From the top of an eleven-yojana fire, the two Lords leap — the way Hanumān leapt the ocean — and land on the ground untouched. To the watching world it looks like escape; to the devotee it looks like the kind of impossible vertical that only Bhagavān and His instruments can perform.