• halāyudhaḥ — Lord Balarāma
  Compound: hala (plow) + āyudha (weapon). 'He whose weapon is the plow.' Balarāma's signature epithet — the plow is both an agricultural tool and, in the next verses, the instrument that drags Yamunā. Gauḍīyas note: Bhagavān's weapon is also a cultivation tool. Both functions are present in the name.
• kṣīvaḥ — inebriated
  Drunk. The Bhāgavatam does not euphemize. Gauḍīya theology distinguishes between Bhagavān's līlā-mada (which is rasa-overflow) and conditioned drunkenness — the bodily symptoms may converge but the cause is opposite.
• mada — by the intoxication
  Mada — intoxication, but also pride, exuberance, even sap (as in elephant temporal-gland secretion). The word puns: Balarāma is gajavat (elephant-like, v. 21) and mada-vihvala in the elephant sense too.
• vihvala — overcome
  Trembling, agitated, swooning. A technical term in rasa-śāstra for the body taken over by bhāva. Gauḍīyas treat vihvala-tā as a marker that aiśvarya has yielded to mādhurya.
• vaneṣu — among the forests
  Locative plural of vana. The plural is intentional — Vṛndāvana's twelve forests. Balarāma's wandering covers the full geography that the Six Gosvāmīs would later catalog forest by forest.

A great strong man with rolling eyes wandering with his beloveds is not embarrassing in Vraja — it is exhilarating, because the strength is no threat and the rolling eyes are the body's honest answer to too much rasa. Bhagavān permits Himself ordinary intoxications because nothing about Him can be made smaller by them.