Now the sinful Kali Age is upon them, when dharma is destroyed, an Age full of evil customs and deceit. Men pursue evil ways. The Vedas have lost their power, the smṛtis are forgotten, and many of the Purāṇas, which contain stories of the past, and show the many ways which lead to liberation, will, O Lord! be destroyed. Men will become averse to religious rites, without restraint, maddened with pride, ever given over to sinful acts, lustful, gluttonous, cruel, heartless, harsh of speech, deceitful, short-lived, poverty-stricken, harassed by sickness and sorrow, ugly, feeble, low, stupid, mean, and addicted to mean habits, companions of the base, thievish, calumnious, malicious, quarrelsome, depraved, cowards, and ever-ailing, devoid of all sense of shame and sin and of fear to seduce the wives of others. Vipras will live like the Śudras, and whilst neglecting their own sandhyā will yet officiate at the sacrifices of the low. They will be greedy, given over to wicked and sinful acts, liars, insolent, ignorant, deceitful, mere hangers-on of others, the sellers of their daughters, degraded, averse to all tapas and vrata. They will be heretics, impostors, and think themselves wise. They will be without faith or devotion, and will do japa and pūjā with no other end than to dupe the people. They will eat unclean food and follow evil customs, they will serve and eat the food of the Śudras and lust after low women, and will be wicked and ready to barter for money even their own wives to the low. In short, the only sign that they are brāhmaṇas will be the thread they wear. Observing no rule in eating or drinking or in other matters, scoffing at the dharma Scriptures, no thought of pious speech ever so much as entering their minds, they will be but bent upon the injury of the good (37-50).