• brāhmaṇa - arthaḥ — the property of a brāhmaṇa
  Brāhmaṇa + artha (property, wealth). The verse pairs this with apahṛtaḥ (taken away, from apa-√hṛ). Apahṛta is the technical term — even an unintended apahāra functions as apahāra.
• pātayati adhaḥ — causes to fall down
  Causative of √pat (to fall) + adhaḥ (downward). The very verb whose imperative form (pata, v. 24) Yamarāja used. The chapter binds its grammar tight: the same root that condemned Nṛga is now the universal law.
• ajānantam api — even one unaware
  A-jānant (not knowing) + api (even). The closing of the ignorance-loophole. Modern moral intuition often softens unintended wrong; the Bhāgavata, in this verse, refuses to.
• nṛgam brāhmaṇa - gauḥ iva — as the brāhmaṇa's cow did to Nṛga
  Nṛga + brāhmaṇa + go (cow) + iva (as). The chapter's narrative-bookend: the example is named in the doctrinal verse. Gauḍīya pedagogy: doctrine is always anchored to a story; the law without its illustration is not the Bhāgavata's style.

• Padaseva Pr SB 10-64-43 Oriya - 2022
  His Grace Padaseva Prabhu· Oriya

• What living example in my own community demonstrates the teaching I keep ignoring?
• How does grounding a principle in a real story make it harder to dismiss?

The chapter's whole arc compressed into a single śloka: brāhmaṇa-property taken, even unknowingly, drops the taker — as Nṛga the lizard, who stands as the verse's living footnote. The story is the proof; the proof is now turned into law.