Canto 6: Prescribed Duties for Mankind | Chapter 1: The History of the Life of Ajāmila |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.1.23
evaḿ 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.
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