• amarṣī — intolerant
  From a- + √mṛṣ. The same family as 'amarṣa' (sañcāri-bhāva of impatience). In bhakti-rasa, intolerance can be holy (kṛṣṇa-aparādha-asahanam, v. 6 above); in asurika hands, it is poison.
• pratijajñe — he swore
  Perfect of prati-√jñā. A pratijñā binds even the gods; here Rukmī binds himself uselessly, since he cannot fulfill the impossible promise of killing the Unkillable.
• mahā-bāhuḥ — mighty-armed
  Mahā (great) + bāhu (arm). A standard epithet for warriors — but the Bhāgavatam reserves its strongest use for Kṛṣṇa Himself (cf. v. 33 below where Rukmiṇī addresses Him so). The repetition strips the title from Rukmī and re-grants it to the Lord.
• kuṇḍinam — the city of Kuṇḍina
  Capital of Vidarbha — Rukmiṇī and Rukmī's birthplace (cf. SB 10.52). Vyāsa names it deliberately; the vow about Kuṇḍina becomes the geography of Rukmī's defeat: he will build a new city (Bhojakaṭa, v. 51) to keep the letter of the vow while violating its spirit.
• satyam — in truth
  From √as ('to be'). The most loaded word in the Sanskrit lexicon. Rukmī swears 'in truth' to do what is metaphysically impossible — to fight the Person who IS satya. The Bhāgavatam's irony is theological, not just dramatic.

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Like a man who has bolted the door of his own house with a vow he cannot retract, Rukmī swears in front of the kings — and his oath becomes the cage that builds Bhojakaṭa. Pratijñā made in anger, not in dharma, is a self-imposed exile.