• veṇum-kvaṇantīm — vibrating the flute
  Phrase: veṇu (flute) + kvaṇantī (sounding, from √kvaṇ to ring). The veṇu is Kṛṣṇa's defining instrument — Veṇu-Gopāla. The gopī mimics His flute-tone; in Gauḍīya rasa-śāstra the veṇu-nāda itself is a vibhāva (causal stimulus) of mādhurya.
• āhūya-dūra-gāḥ — calling the far-away cows
  Phrase: āhūya (calling) + dūra (far) + gāḥ (cows). Kṛṣṇa is Go-pāla — He knows each cow by name and calls them home at dusk. The gopīs envy this naming-knowledge; in re-enactment one of them assumes it.
• sādhu iti — 'excellent!'
  Sādhu — well done, holy, true. The same cry the demigods raise when an avatāra acts. The gopīs unconsciously perform the role of devas applauding līlā; their re-enactment is liturgically structured.
• krīḍantīm — playing games
  Present participle of √krīḍ — the root that gives krīḍā (sport). Krīḍā is the technical Gauḍīya term for Kṛṣṇa's free, purposeless play — never duty, never necessity. The gopī plays a player; rasa is self-referential.

A musician's apprentice imitates the master's flute-flourish so exactly that the audience cries out 'sādhu! sādhu!' — and the apprentice, hearing the cry, knows the master is somehow present in her playing. So with the gopī who calls the cows in Kṛṣṇa's voice; the chorus of sādhu from her sisters is the gopīs' affirmation that He has, for an instant, returned through her.