ārabhya bhavato janma
yāvan nandābhiṣecanam
etad varṣa-sahasraḿ tu
śataḿ pañcadaśottaram
arabhya -- beginning from; bhavatah -- of your good self (Parikshit); janma -- the birth; yavat -- up until; nanda -- of King Nanda, the son of Mahanandi; abhishecanam -- the coronation; etat -- this; varsha -- years; sahasram -- one thousand; tu -- and; satam -- one hundred; panca-dasa-uttaram -- plus fifty.
From your birth up to the coronation of King Nanda, 1,150 years will pass.
Although Sukadeva Gosvami previously described approximately fifteen hundred years of royal dynasties, it is understood that some overlapping occurred between kings. Therefore the present chronological calculation should be taken as authoritative.
