• taruṇyaḥ — young women
  Taruṇī — a young woman in the bloom of youth. The class of devotee whose nature is light, playful, easily moved to laughter. The chapter does not moralize against this nature; it builds the līlā around it.
• jāti-cāpalāḥ — by nature unsteady/light
  Compound: jāti (innate kind) + cāpala (fickleness, restlessness). Gauḍīya rasa-śāstra recognizes such temperaments as the proper ground for some moods of mādhurya — vāmā-nāyikā traits are not flaws in līlā but features.
• hāsya-priyāḥ — fond of laughter
  Compound: hāsya (laughter, also a rasa) + priya (loving). Hāsya-rasa is one of the seven gauṇa-rasas. The verse pivots on it: a moment of hāsya is what brings the asura close enough to be killed.
• baladeva-parigrahāḥ — the consorts of Lord Baladeva
  Compound: Baladeva + parigraha (one accepted as one's own). Parigraha here = wife. The verse identifies them by their relation to Him — their identity is in being His, the Gauḍīya pattern.
• dhārṣṭyam — impudence, audacity
  From √dhṛṣ (to be bold, to dare). The same root that names dhṛṣṭa-buddhi in Bhagavad-gītā 16's catalog of demoniac traits. Diagnostic noun for asura-svabhāva.

Young women laughing at an impertinent monkey — the laugh is innocent, but it is also the spark that escalates the whole scene. Vraja-style girlish levity is not condemned; it is simply the human soil on which līlā advances toward conflict.