अथ काल उपावृत्ते देवकी सर्वदेवता । पुत्रान् प्रसुषुवे चाष्टौ कन्यां चैवानुवत्सरम् ॥ ५६ ॥
atha kāla upāvṛtte devakī sarva-devatā putrān prasuṣuve cāṣṭau kanyāṁ caivānuvatsaram
- atha
- thereafter
- kāle
- in due course of time
- upāvṛtte
- when it was ripe
- devakī
- Devakī, the wife of Vasudeva, Kṛṣṇa’s father
- sarva-devatā
- Devakī, to whom all the demigods and God Himself appeared
- putrān
- sons
- prasuṣuve
- gave birth to
- ca
- and
- aṣṭau
- eight
- kanyāṁ ca
- and one daughter named Subhadrā
- eva
- indeed
- anuvatsaram
- year after year
Each year thereafter, in due course of time, Devakī, the mother of God and all the demigods, gave birth to a child. Thus she bore eight sons, one after another, and a daughter named Subhadrā.