cabbiśa - twenty-fourth; vatsara - of the year; śeṣa - at the end; yei - that; māgha-māsa - the month of Māgha (January-February); tāra - of that; śukla-pakṣe - in the waxing period of the moon; prabhu - the Lord; karilā - accepted; sannyāsa - the sannyāsa order of life.

At the end of His twenty-fourth year, in the month of Māgha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted the sannyāsa order during the waxing period of the moon.