• jarāsandhāya — to Jarāsandha
  Lit. 'one joined by Jarā' — born in two halves, joined by the rākṣasī Jarā (cf. Mahābhārata Sabhā-parva). His name itself encodes that he is unnaturally welded together; only Bhīma, instructed by Kṛṣṇa, can later split him again.
• magadha-rājāya — to the King of Magadha
  Magadha is the rising imperial power of the age. Kṛṣṇa's līlā at Mathurā now collides with Magadha's empire — the death of Kaṁsa is also the death of a Magadhan client-king, which is why the father must respond.
• vaidhavya — of widowhood
  Derived from vidhavā (widow). The widow's complaint is the formal pretext; the real cause is Jarāsandha's loss of a strategic son-in-law. The Bhāgavatam frames worldly politics as always cloaked in personal grief.
• kāraṇam — the cause
  Apparent kāraṇa: Kaṁsa's killing. True kāraṇa: bhū-bhāra-haraṇa — Kṛṣṇa is already arranging the removal of the demonic kings through Jarāsandha's coming armies, which He will harvest at Kurukṣetra.

The daughters spill their widowhood into their father's ear like oil onto a banked coal — what was already smouldering in Jarāsandha (his hatred of Yadu rule) now bursts into open fire. Kṛṣṇa's pastime in Mathurā has lit the kindling of Magadha.