• anādṛtya — disregarding
  Gerund of an + ā + √dṛ, 'not-honoring.' The same root as ādara (respect). Rukmī's a-ādara to the heavenly voice is the precise dramatic hinge — the moment he forfeits any remaining shelter.
• vaidarbhaḥ — Rukmī, Prince of Vidarbha
  From Vidarbha, his kingdom. The Bhāgavata names him by his land rather than his name in this fatal verse — almost as if the narrator can no longer bear to use the personal name about to die. A subtle Sanskrit elegy.
• duṣṭa — wicked
  From √duṣ, 'to spoil.' Bhāgavata's word for the spoilt — the kings around Rukmī are not merely arrogant (dṛpta, verse 27) but spoilt (duṣṭa). The narrator's verdict deepens as the scene escalates.
• saṅkarṣaṇam — to Lord Balarāma
  Saṅkarṣaṇa, 'the one who draws together.' Balarāma as the first of the Catur-vyūha, the cosmic principle of cohesion. Naming Him Saṅkarṣaṇa here, just before He kills Rukmī, signals that the act is theologically weighted — the principle of cohesion itself is being insulted.
• kāla — by the force of time
  Bhāgavata's most fearsome word. Kāla = both time and death. Rukmī is not merely 'impelled by the kings' but 'impelled by kāla' — the Lord's own form as inexorable time. The Gītā 11.32 reading: 'kālo'smi loka-kṣaya-kṛt.'

Like a deaf gambler who plays on after the king's own herald has stopped the game, Rukmī plugs his ears to the sky and lets kāla — the same kāla that drove Yudhiṣṭhira's hand in the Hastināpura match — drive his tongue toward his own death.