• dharma-bhṛtām variṣṭhaḥ — the best of upholders of religion
  Compound: dharma + bhṛt (bearer) + variṣṭha (most senior, best). Kṛṣṇa does not stand outside dharma but at its summit — He keeps the rules He gave, more perfectly than any rule-keeper, demonstrating that lokavat tu līlā-kaivalyam (Vedānta-sūtra 2.1.33).
• kirīṭa-juṣṭena — fitted with a crown
  Compound: kirīṭa (crown) + juṣṭa (fitted, possessed of). The poet underlines that the head being lowered is a crowned head — sovereignty does not abstain from praṇāma. Highest aiśvarya bowing to brāhmaṇa is the chapter's recurring image.
• sa-añjaliḥ — with joined palms
  Añjali — the cupped-palm greeting. Kṛṣṇa adopts the disciple's posture before the sage. Gauḍīyas read this as the Lord's own teaching of vidhi: even the supreme guru (jagad-guru-tama, next verse) honors the guru-form when it arrives.
• śrī-paryaṅkataḥ — from the bed of Śrī (Rukmiṇī)
  Compound: śrī (the goddess of fortune, here Rukmiṇī) + paryaṅka (bed). To rise from Lakṣmī's bed for Nārada's sake is to publicly rank brāhmaṇa-honor above conjugal repose — the order of values is being taught visibly.

A senior judge rising to his feet for a visiting student — the higher honoring the lower — is not weakness but the deepest expression of dharma. Bhagavān, who has all glories, rises from Śrī's bed and bows His crowned head at Nārada's feet because the highest upholder of dharma is the one who keeps it most completely, even when none of His subjects could compel Him to.