• udāharanti — they cite as an example
  Present indicative — 'they go on citing.' Paramparā as living example-bank. The story is not new; it is what wise speakers have always brought forward at this exact doctrinal point.
• itihāsam purātanam — an ancient historical account
  Contiguous (itihāsam + purātanam). Itihāsa = 'thus it was.' The Bhāgavatam asserts historicity, not myth — Gauḍīyas read these as actual events with doctrinal payload.
• vṛka-asurāya — to the demon Vṛka
  Contiguous (vṛka + asurāya). Vṛka means 'wolf' — a name carrying its character. The Bhāgavatam often names asuras by their predatory shape.
• giri-śaḥ — Lord of the mountain, Śiva
  Contiguous (giri + śaḥ). Lord of Kailāsa. The verse uses this regal epithet right before recounting his flight — a deliberate dramatic irony.
• saṅkaṭam — danger, narrow pass
  From sam-√kṛt (to narrow). The very Lord of the mountain finds himself in a saṅkaṭa — a narrow passage. The word will return in v.16, 37, 38-39 as the chapter's drumbeat.

• Where has my own generosity put me in a corner?
• What in my pattern of giving needs discernment more than expansion?

An old village will keep retelling the time the king's elephant nearly trampled the king himself — not for amusement, but as the standing argument for why crown princes train differently. So the Vṛkāsura story is kept alive: the Lord of Kailāsa nearly trampled by His own gift. Listen to the story; learn the doctrine.