• prabuddhaḥ — awakened
  From pra + √budh. The same root that gives buddha — "the awakened one." Gauḍīyas note Vyāsa's deliberate vocabulary: even Bhagavān's resumption of normal consciousness is described as awakening, not as recall — the language of jāgrat after svapna.
• svāpnam yathā — as if from a dream
  Phrase: svāpna (pertaining to sleep) + yathā (as if). The standard Bhāgavatam simile for māyā. Kṛṣṇa's brief absorption is compared to the dream-state — and the verse's punch is that for a jīva, this is the permanent condition He has come to break.
• ambara-cāriṇam — moving in the sky
  Compound: ambara (sky) + cārin (moving). The enemy is ambara-cārin, sky-traveling. Gauḍīyas read this as the standard depiction of avidyā — it never stands on earth, always darts overhead, refusing to be pinned down until the cakra arrives.
• nihantum udyataḥ — prepared to kill
  Phrase: ni + √han (to slay) + udyata (raised, prepared). The Lord's posture shifts from grieving son to executioner in a single line. Vaiṣṇava decisiveness — when the role-play has served its purpose, the disc is raised.

Alert again to the actual situation, Kṛṣṇa sees neither messenger nor body on the field — "as if waking from a dream." The Lord's recovery from the illusion is described in the exact terminology applied to a jīva's awakening from saṁsāra: the bodies were never there, only the dreaming mind made them dense.