SB 6.1.23 • मूल श्लोक

एवं निवसतस्तस्य लालयानस्य तत्सुतान् । कालोऽत्यगान्महान् राजन्नष्टाशीत्यायुष: समा: ॥ २३ ॥

Transliteration

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

Synonyms (Word-for-Word)

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.”

Bhaktivedanta Purport

By Śrīla Prabhupāda