षट्त्रिंशद्वर्षसाहस्रं शशास क्षितिमण्डलम् । भोगै: पुण्यक्षयं कुर्वन्नभोगैरशुभक्षयम् ॥ १३ ॥
sat-trimsad-varsa-sahasram sasasa ksiti-mandalam bhogaih punya-ksayam kurvann abhogair asubha-ksayam
- sat-trimsat
- thirty-six
- varsa
- years
- sahasram
- thousand
- sasasa
- ruled
- ksiti-mandalam
- the earth plane
- bhogaih
- by enjoyment
- punya
- of reactions of pious activities
- ksayam
- diminution
- kurvan
- doing
- abhogaih
- by austerities
- asubha
- of inauspicious reactions
- ksayam
- diminution.
Dhruva Maharaja ruled over this plane for thirty-six thousand years; he diminished the reactions of pious activities by enjoyment, and by practicing austerities he diminished inauspicious reactions.