Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 24

Sanskrit:

तस्य प्रवयस: पुत्रा दश तेषां तु योऽवम: ।बालो नारायणो नाम्ना पित्रोश्च दयितो भृशम् ॥ २४ ॥

ITRANS:

tasya pravayasaḥ putrādaśa teṣāṁ tu yo ’vamaḥbālo nārāyaṇo nāmnāpitroś ca dayito bhṛśam

Translation:

That old man Ajāmila had ten sons, of whom the youngest was a baby named Nārāyaṇa. Since Nārāyaṇa was the youngest of all the sons, he was naturally very dear to both his father and his mother.

Purport:

The word pravayasaḥ indicates Ajāmila’s sinfulness because although he was eighty-eight years old, he had a very young child. According to Vedic culture, one should leave home as soon as he has reached fifty years of age; one should not live at home and go on producing children. Sex life is allowed for twenty-five years, between the ages of twenty-five and forty-five or, at the most, fifty. After that one should give up the habit of sex life and leave home as a vānaprastha and then properly take sannyāsa. Ajāmila, however, because of his association with a prostitute, lost all brahminical culture and became most sinful, even in his so-called household life.