• abhedyam — indestructible
  a- + bhid (to break) + -ya. Śālva engineers safety from every species — yet leaves out one category: the Lord Himself. The Bhāgavatam will exploit precisely this gap. No abheda is possible against Bhagavān; only śaraṇa is.
• kāma-gam — traveling at will
  Compound from synonyms (kāma + gam). Kāma here means 'wish' — the vehicle moves wherever desire points. Gauḍīyas read kāma-driven motion as the asura's geometry; the devotee's geometry is bhāva-driven (rādhā-bhāva, Mahāprabhu's mood).
• vavre — chose
  Perfect of √vṛ — to choose, to select. Same root as varaḥ (boon) and vara (groom). What Śālva chooses defines him: he marries his vow to a vehicle rather than dissolving the vow in śaraṇa.
• vṛṣṇi — for the Vṛṣṇis
  Kṛṣṇa's clan-name through Vṛṣṇi the ancestor. The asura specifies his target by name — he is not abstractly anti-divine but personally anti-Vṛṣṇi, which is to say anti-parikara of Kṛṣṇa.
• bhīṣaṇam — terrifying
  From √bhī (to fear). The asuric weapon is calibrated to one effect — fear. The Bhāgavatam's whole point in narrating it is to show that fear cannot touch one whose heart rests in Kṛṣṇa (cf. SB 1.7.10, ātmārāmāś ca munayaḥ).

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• What detail do I obsess over when crafting plans that bypass real surrender?
• Where would simpler trust serve better than elaborate strategy?

Like a man who, granted any treasure, asks only for armor against shame, Śālva narrows infinity to a flying fortress. The boon-giver's open hand becomes a measure of the asker's small heart.