• hāhā-kāraḥ — cry of alas
  Onomatopoeic — the sound of public lamentation. The same cry returns in verse 36 when Śālva's own followers shout it at his death. Bhāgavatam's careful symmetry: the cry of dismay shifts sides as the līlā advances.
• saubha-rāṭ — the master of Saubha
  Repeated epithet (cf. v. 4, 10). Śālva is never named without his vehicle — his identity is welded to the flying machine, a perfect picture of one whose ego cannot stand apart from its conveyance.
• janārdanam — to Janārdana
  He who agitates (ardana) the people (jana) — both meaning He whom people approach in distress and He who agitates demons. Śālva addresses the very name that describes what Kṛṣṇa is about to do to him.

All the witnesses cry out in dismay; the lord of Saubha roars and addresses Janārdana. The crowd around a līlā always reacts a beat too early — they wail at the bow's fall, not yet knowing that the Lord's next breath ends the entire battle.