एवं निवसतस्तस्य लालयानस्य तत्सुतान् । कालोऽत्यगान्महान् राजन्नष्टाशीत्यायुष: समा: ॥ २३ ॥
evam nivasatas tasya lalayanasya tat-sutan kalo ’tyagan mahan rajann astasityayusah samah
- evam
- in this way
- nivasatah
- living
- tasya
- of him (Ajamila)
- lalayanasya
- maintaining
- tat
- of her (the sudrani)
- sutan
- sons
- kalah
- time
- atyagat
- passed away
- mahan
- a great amount
- rajan
- O King
- astasitya
- eighty-eight
- ayusah
- of the duration of life
- samah
- years.
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.