teṣām - among all of those sons; purastāt - on the eastern side; abhavan - they became; āryāvarte - in the place within the Himalaya and Vindhya mountains known as Āryāvarta; nṛpāḥ - kings; nṛpa - O King (Mahārāja Parīkṣit); pañca-vimśatiḥ - twenty-five; paścāt - on the western side; ca - also; trayaḥ - three of them; madhye - in the middle (between east and west); apare - others; anyataḥ - in other places.

Of the one hundred sons, twenty-five became kings in the western side of Āryāvarta, a place between the Himālaya and Vindhya mountains. Another twenty-five sons became kings in the east of Āryāvarta, and the three principal sons became kings in the middle. The other sons became kings in various other places.