• kaṁsena — by King Kaṁsa
  Instrumental. The danger is enacted by Pūtanā but caused by Kaṁsa — the verse traces back from the visible threat to its political source. Gauḍīya reading: the asura-mind in power deploys agents that look private; the devotee learns to see the king behind every Pūtanā.
• ghorā — very fierce
  The same adjective Bhāgavata applies to elemental terrors. The verse refuses to let her later cosmetic beauty (verse 5) soften the underlying truth: she is ghorā at the core.
• bāla - ghātinī — a Rākṣasī who killed (small babies)
  Compound — bāla (child) + ghātin (slayer) in feminine. The Rākṣasī's specialty is killing the small and the innocent: in Gauḍīya pastoral reading, anything that destroys the bhakti-latā in its tender, infant stage is a Pūtanā-form.
• pura - grāma - vraja - ādiṣu — in towns, cities and villages
  Locative plural compound. The threat is not confined to the wilderness; it walks the populated paths. Māyā stalks where most people are, dressed in their own clothes.
• nighnantī — killing
  Present participle — continuous action, not a one-off. While Nanda is on the road and Gokula is celebrating Kṛṣṇa's birth, this killing is happening right now in the next village. The devotee never assumes the war is paused.

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• Notice one 'Pūtanā' in your day — a sweet-seeming influence (a feed, a flatterer, a habit) that quietly poisons bhakti — and refuse its milk today.
• Before stepping out, take shelter of Kṛṣṇa's holy name once with full attention, knowing that hostile forces are already in motion in the towns and streets you will enter.
• Guard the small and vulnerable in your care — children, juniors, your own beginner's faith — by screening what you allow near them, the way Yaśodā would screen a stranger at the door.

Kaṁsa's order keeps moving even after Kṛṣṇa has been carried beyond his reach — like a poisoned arrow loosed at one target that travels on, hunting any child it can find. Pūtanā is that arrow in human shape: māyā in motion through the towns while you are dreaming Gokula is safe.