• kalevare — in the body
  Locative of kalevara — body, corpse-shell. The Vaiṣṇava vocabulary refuses to glamorize the body even when alive; it is kalevara already, in essence.
• ghaṭa-kuḍya-sannibhe — like a pot or a wall
  Compound: ghaṭa (pot) + kuḍya (wall) + sannibhe (resembling). The two stock Vedānta-Vaiṣṇava analogies for material objects. Mucukunda equates his body with them — the diagnostic image for the proper attitude toward the deha.
• nara-devaḥ — a god among men
  Compound: nara + devaḥ (god). The royal title. Vaiṣṇavas note: only Bhagavān is deva absolutely; the king's nara-deva is courtesy at best, delusion at worst. Mucukunda confesses he took it as the latter.
• agaṇayan — not regarding seriously
  Present participle of a-√gaṇ — not counting, disregarding. The exact crime of the dehātma-conditioned soul: agaṇayan tvām — disregarding You. The Bhāgavata's force depends on the personal address: not 'ignoring the absolute' but 'disregarding You.'
• su-durmadaḥ — very much deluded by pride
  Compound: su (very) + durmadaḥ (badly intoxicated). Pride's grammatical superlative. Gauḍīyas read mada (pride) as one of the six ari-ṣaṭ (six inner enemies — verse 57); mada makes Bhagavān invisible because the puffed-up self fills the view.

Riding through provinces on elephants and chariots, surrounded by an army — and Mucukunda confesses: 'I took this body, a pot of clay or a wall, for my self. I called myself a god among men.' The chapter holds up the king's confession as the model for every devotee's own confession.