SB 6.1.23

Srimad-Bhagavatam, Sixth Canto, Chapter 1: The History of the Life of Ajāmila

SB 6.1.22

SB 6.1.24

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 23

evaṁ nivasatas tasya
lālayānasya tat-sutān
kālo 'tyagān mahān rājann
aṣṭāśītyāyuṣaḥ samāḥ

SYNONYMS

evam—in this way; nivasataḥ—living; tasya—of him (Ajāmila); lālayānasya—maintaining; tat—of her (the śūdrāṇī); sutān—sons; kālaḥ—time; atyagāt—passed away; mahān—a great amount; rājan—O King; aṣṭāśītyā—eighty-eight; āyuṣaḥ—of the duration of life; samāḥ—years.

TRANSLATION

My dear King, while he thus spent his time in abominable, sinful activities to maintain his family of many sons, eighty-eight years of his life passed by.