• agrataḥ viprān — first to the brāhmaṇas
  Sequence is doctrinal: brāhmaṇa first, then friends, then ministers, then wives, then self. Bhagavān refuses to consume what has not first been honoured outward. The principle yields prasāda-vidhi for the entire tradition.
• tāmbūla — betel preparation
  Tāmbūla after a meal is the host's signature of complete reception. In Vraja, the gopīs make tāmbūla for Kṛṣṇa as an intimate seva; here He distributes it. Distribution and reception form a single Bhakti-loop.
• suhṛdaḥ — His friends
  Su-hṛd literally 'good-hearted,' the technical term for sakhya-bhāva. Sātyaki, Uddhava, Akrūra and others receive after the brāhmaṇas, before even His own queens — friendship has its own rank in His order.
• svayam — Himself
  He, the original enjoyer of all sacrifice (BG 5.29), takes last. This is the deepest reversal: Bhagavān, who is bhokta of the universe, accepts only what remains after His own have been satisfied. The mahā-prasāda principle is in this single word.

Kṛṣṇa receives the garland only after the brāhmaṇas, friends, ministers, and queens have received theirs — like the host who eats last, the guru who serves first. Prasāda-distribution is the Vaiṣṇava household's central choreography, and this verse is its source.