• maghavatā — by Indra
  An old epithet of Indra — 'the bountiful one,' he who gives rain. The irony is etched into the name: the giver of rain becomes its weaponizer. Gauḍīyas note that misused dharma-function is itself the seed of one's fall.
• nanda - gokulam — the cowherd pastures of Nanda Mahārāja
  gokula — 'the cow-community.' Nanda's gokula is in Gauḍīya theology the eternal abode of vātsalya-līlā; Kṛṣṇa's foster home is not a stage but a tattva. Attacking gokulam is attacking the Lord's most intimate dhāma.
• nirmukta - bandhanāḥ — released from their bonds
  nirmukta (released) + bandhana (bondage). The clouds are slipped off the leash that normally restrains them until pralaya. The phrasing flags Indra's transgression as cosmic mismanagement, not just personal wrath.
• pīḍayām āsuḥ — they tormented
  From √pīḍ — to press, oppress. The verb the Bhāgavata uses for the affliction of devotees (Prahlāda, Gajendra, the gopas). And the rule is invariant: the moment pīḍā falls on a devotee, Kṛṣṇa moves.

Sāṁvartaka clouds, unbound out of season, rush at Nanda's pastures with the full strength of dissolution. It is as if a man, angry at a single house, set fire to the city's gas mains — and the only one who can shut the valve is the small boy inside the house.