• caidyaḥ — Śiśupāla
  From Cedi — king of the Cedi country. The Bhāgavatam switches from 'Damaghoṣa-suta' (verse 30) to 'caidya' (here) and 'cedi-pa' (verse 39), drawing a tight verbal portrait of his political identity.
• asambhrāntaḥ — unshaken, unconfused
  A (not) + sambhrānta (confused, agitated). His composure makes the verse colder — this is no panicked flailing but cold, articulate hostility. Gauḍīyas: the asura's worst form is the lucid, fearless asura, not the desperate one.
• khaḍga - carmaṇī — sword and shield
  Compound + dual: khaḍga (sword) + carma (shield). The two-weapon stance of a kṣatriya prepared for melee. Śiśupāla is not bluffing; the Bhāgavatam will not let us read his fall as accidental.
• kṛṣṇa - pakṣīyān — the proponents of Kṛṣṇa
  Compound: Kṛṣṇa + pakṣīya (of the side of). Śiśupāla insults not only Kṛṣṇa but His pakṣa — the bhakta-side. The verse names the camp Gauḍīyas claim membership in.

A wick burns brightest just before it extinguishes; an enemy of God grows loudest just before his end. Śiśupāla, sword and shield up, hurls his last salvo — the Bhāgavatam frames the bravado as the immediate cause of release.