• cāṇūra - muṣṭikau — Cāṇūra and Muṣṭika (dual)
  Kaṁsa addresses his two top wrestlers in the dual — the very form in which they will die, paired, at Kṛṣṇa's and Balarāma's hands in the arena.
• nanda - vraje — in the cowherd village of Nanda
  Nanda-Vraja — Mahārāja Nanda's cowherd settlement. Kaṁsa, the asura, names the most sacred place in Gauḍīya cosmography matter-of-factly as a location to send killers to.
• ānakadundubheḥ — of Ānakadundubhi (Vasudeva)
  Vasudeva's epithet — at his birth, divine drums sounded (ānaka-dundubhi). The name marks Vasudeva as the prophesied father of the avatāra; Kaṁsa uses the name because it is etched in his fear.
• rāma - kṛṣṇau — Rāma and Kṛṣṇa (dual)
  Always paired in this chapter as a unit. Gauḍīya theology: never separate them — Balarāma is Kṛṣṇa's ādi-rūpa, His first expansion, in every līlā beside Him.
• malla - līlayā — on the pretext of wrestling play
  Malla (wrestler) + līlā (play). Tragic irony: Kaṁsa uses the word līlā for his murder-plot, not knowing that what he is staging will indeed be līlā — but Kṛṣṇa's, not his.

The wrestling-match is the demon's idea of a clever frame: kill the boys in public, on a pretext, with cheering crowds. He has no idea the same crowd will become the audience that recognizes Kṛṣṇa as the original wrestler-warrior. His plot is the stage Bhagavān asked for.