• tat-rodhana-āyāsa — the effort to restrain (the cows)
  Compound: tat (those cows) + rodhana (restraining) + āyāsa (effort). Paired in the verse with maughya (futility): the effort was useless — sneha-vaśa cannot be stopped by herders. Gauḍīyas read this as bhakti's standing law: love that has arisen cannot be administratively suppressed.
• lajjā — ashamed
  Feminine noun — the cowherds' embarrassment that they could not control their own cows. The Bhāgavata's emotional realism: the men feel exposed before the herd's display of devotion.
• uru-manyunā — with great anger
  Compound: uru (great) + manyu (anger). The men cross over angry, but the anger does not survive contact with their sons (verse 33). Manyu in Vraja is provisional; vātsalya is final.
• durga-adhva-kṛcchrataḥ — with the difficulty of the rough path
  Compound: durga (rough, hard to traverse) + adhvan (path) + kṛcchra (hardship). The Bhāgavata names the path's actual roughness — Vraja-geography is not gentled by the līlā.
• sutān — their sons
  Plural of suta (son). The simple word for what they finally see. Gauḍīyas note: they see 'their sons' — but those sons are Kṛṣṇa. Whatever sees turns to vātsalya, because the object now multiplies the response.

Fathers irritated at the runaway herd, crossing the rocky path to scold their wives' indulgence, who then catch sight of their sons and forget every rebuke — Vraja's anger has no half-life. The moment the boy's face appears, vātsalya overwrites every grievance.