—json {

  "name":"SB 6.1.23",
  "h1":"SB 6.1.23",
  "label":"Text 23",
  "title":"Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.1.23",
  "description":"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."

} —

SB 6.1.23

Text

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.