We teach (follow) this version - what did he say: When he cried with a great and bitter cry, what did he say in his cry?

Rav said: This is what he yelled.

Haman has risen above Ahasuerus: For he had the temerity to say what Ahasuerus did not have the temerity [to say].

The upper King has prevailed: It is a replacement term for the opposite, by way of euphemistic language.

Was exceedingly distressed (vatitchalchal): The hollow (chalal) of her body melted.

Because he was cut down from his greatness in the days of Ahasuerus. As behold, Belshazzar had made three govern over his kingdom (one of whom was Daniel). And likewise Darius the Mede, as it is stated (Daniel 6:3), "And over them were three ministers, of which Daniel was one." And likewise Cyrus, as it is stated (Daniel 6:29), "And Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and during the reign of Cyrus the Persian." But when Ahasuerus governed, he cut him down from his greatness.

But he: Daniel did not go to respond to his mission.

For a sad report: As Esther was prevented from coming to the king. Hence Chatach did not respond to his mission. But Esther sent her words through others.

Until now I had intercourse under compulsion.

But now: From here onwards, it is with my [own] will.

I shall be lost from you: I will be forbidden to you. For the wife of a Jew who is raped is permitted to her husband; but if [she engaged in intercourse] willingly, she is forbidden to her husband.

The first festive day of Pesach: As behold, the letters were written on the thirteenth of Nissan, and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan. So on the fourteenth, the fifteenth and the sixteenth, they fasted; and Haman was hung on the sixteenth.

That he crossed over a stream of water to gather the Jews on the other side.

Shofet the pot: Placing [a pot] on the stove is called shefitah.

This one came as a rich man: Mordekhai come to him with the claim of wealth; Haman came with the claim of poverty, since Haman had sold himself to Mordekhai much earlier for a loaf of bread.

Bulei: An expression of wealth; as we say (Gittin 37a), "'And I will break the pride of your power' (Leviticus 26:19) - these are the bulaot of Judea."