• asatyam vacaḥ — false words
  Contiguous (asatyam + vacaḥ). Hari invokes the asura's commitment to keeping speech true — using Vṛka's residual sense of dharma as the lever. Gauḍīyas: even asuric minds carry fragments of dharma that Bhagavān can weaponise toward their salvation.
• dānava-ṛṣabha — O best of demons
  Contiguous (dānava + ṛṣabha). Second honorific in two ślokas. The Bhāgavatam repeats the flattery so the reader will see how Hari is choreographing the asura's pride into the asura's death.
• jahi — kill (him)
  Imperative of √han. Hari uses the imperative of killing — toward Śiva, His own dear devotee — to convince Vṛka to act. Gauḍīya reading: the surface command is shocking; the underlying intent is the rescue of both Śiva and (ultimately) Vṛka from his own course.
• asat-vācam — speaker of untruth
  Contiguous (asat + vācam). Hari frames Śiva, hypothetically, as an asat-speaker — and asks Vṛka to enforce satya. The chapter shows Bhagavān using the asura's own thin loyalty to satya.
• anṛtam punaḥ — untruth again
  Contiguous (anṛtam + punaḥ). Anṛta = the lie. The verse closes with the asura cast as guardian of truth — the most ironic role he has ever held, and the role under which his hand finally rises.

A clever advocate appeals to the asura's sense of justice: 'And if the boon fails, you must execute the liar.' The frame is moral — Vṛka becomes the agent of cosmic truth-keeping, righteous now in his own eyes. The mind that wanted to play executioner is gifted a reason; the hand rises on its own.