• alakṣyamāṇau — unseen (by the enemy)
  Dual present passive participle of √lakṣ (to perceive). The grammar is exact — They are not absent, only un-perceived. A Gauḍīya gloss: Bhagavān is always present; what changes is the seeing apparatus of the seer.
• yadu-uttamau — the two most excellent Yadus
  Compound dual: yadu (the dynasty) + uttama (best). Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma are named by Their family, not Their tattva — Sūta keeps the human-scale frame even when describing a leap from eleven yojanas. The verse's tone is dynastic homecoming.
• sva-puram — to Their own city
  Compound: sva (own) + pura (city). Dvārakā is named here as 'Their own' — the Lord's eternal capital. Gauḍīyas hold that Dvārakā exists in the spiritual world as Kṛṣṇa's permanent aiśvarya-dhāma, mirrored on earth during this avatāra.
• samudra-parikhām — having the ocean as a protective moat
  Compound: samudra (ocean) + parikhā (moat). The verse's architectural image — a city moated by the sea itself — flags Dvārakā as constructed by Viśvakarmā at Kṛṣṇa's word, beyond what any asurika engineering can breach.

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• What 'ocean moat' protects your home that you under-appreciate?
• Where does coming home unseen complete a mission better than triumphal entry?

Alakṣyamāṇau — unseen by the enemy — is the same condition the devotee enjoys when serving Kṛṣṇa under the radar of māyā. Dvārakā ringed by the ocean is the model: the city of the Lord is moated by an element no asura can swim, and Kṛṣṇa enters it the way prema enters a guarded heart.