• mānuṣīm prakṛtim — human nature
  Phrase: mānuṣī (human, feminine) + prakṛti (nature). The technical key. Gauḍīyas insist this is donned, not entered — Bhagavān is nara-līlā-pradarśakaḥ, the displayer of human mood, never its subject.
• prākṛtaḥ yathā — like an ordinary man
  Phrase: prākṛta (mundane) + yathā (as if). Vyāsa's safety-rail — the comparison admits the appearance of ordinariness and simultaneously denies its reality. Bhagavān grieves yathā — "as if" — not in fact.
• ghṛṇī — compassionate
  From √ghṛṇ — to feel tenderness, to grieve in pity. The same root produces ghṛṇā. Gauḍīyas note that even the simulated grief of Bhagavān is structured by mercy, not despair.
• snehāt — out of affection
  Ablative of sneha — sticky love, parent-child affection. The cause Kṛṣṇa names for His own response is sneha, the same emotional category by which Yaśodā binds Him in 10.9. Snehāt is precisely why the play of grief is convincing.

Hearing this terrible news, Kṛṣṇa — "playing the role of a mortal" — shows sorrow and compassion and speaks like an ordinary conditioned soul. The Lord deliberately puts on the human frame, not because He is bewildered, but because He has accepted the script in which He has a father, and therefore must be seen to grieve for him.