And disciples will set at naught the instructions of preceptors, and seek even to injure them.  And preceptors impoverished will be disregarded by men.  And friends and relatives and kinsmen will perform friendly offices for the sake of the wealth only that is possessed by a person.  And when the end of the Yuga comes, everybody will be in want.  And all the points of the horizon will be ablaze, and the stars and stellar groups will be destitute of brilliancy, and the planets and planetary conjunctions will be inauspicious.  And the course of the winds will be confused and agitated, and innumerable meteors will flash through the sky, foreboding evil.  And the Sun will appear with six others of the same kind.  And all around there will be din and uproar, and everywhere there will be conflagrations.  And the Sun, from the hour of his rising to that of setting, will be enveloped by Rahu.  And the deity of a thousand eyes will shower rain unseasonably.  And when the end of the Yuga comes, crops will not grow in abundance.  And the women will always be sharp in speech and pitiless and fond of weeping.  And they will never abide by the commands of their husbands.  And when the end of the Yuga comes, sons will slay fathers and mothers.  And women, living uncontrolled, will slay their husbands and sons.  And, O king, when the end of the Yuga comes, Rahu will swallow the Sun unseasonably.  And fires will blaze up on all sides.  And travellers unable to obtain food and drink and shelter even when they ask for these, will lie down on the wayside refraining from urging their solicitations.  And when the end of the Yuga comes, crows and snakes and vultures and kites and other animals and birds will utter frightful and dissonant cries.  And when the end of the Yuga comes, men will cast away and neglect their friends and relatives and attendants.  And, O monarch, when the end of the Yuga comes, men abandoning the countries and directions and towns and cities of their occupation, will seek for new ones, one after another.  And people will wander over the earth, uttering, ‘O father, O son’, and such other frightful and rending cries.

“And when those terrible times will be over, the creation will begin anew.  And men will again be created and distributed into the four orders beginning with Brahmanas.  And about that time, in order that men may increase, Providence, according to its pleasure, will once more become propitious.  And then when the Sun, the Moon, and Vrihaspati will, with the constellation Pushya[47], enter the same sign, the Krita age will begin again.  And the clouds will commence to shower seasonably, and the stars and stellar conjunctions will become auspicious.  And the planets, duly revolving in their orbits, will become exceedingly propitious.  And all around, there will be prosperity and abundance and health and peace.  And commissioned by Time, a Brahmana of the name of Kalki will take his birth.  And he will glorify Vishnu and possess great energy, great