SB 6.1.23
His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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.