Matsyapurana 144.74

144.74

jantavaśca kṣudhāviṣṭā duḥkhānnirvedamāgaman
saṃśrayanti ca deśāṃstāṃś cakravatparivartanāḥ //

Animals oppressed by hunger wandered far and wide and at last took their abodes close to the above men The people also, being very hungry, became flesh eaters They all began to eat flesh of deer, boar, bull, every thing whether allowed or not They lived on all sorts of things without pausing to enquire under the influence of hunger whether it was worthy of being eaten or not Those who lived close by rivers or oceans maintained their lives by taking fish Thus by eating flesh and forbidden food, all the people became of one caste Varna As there existed only one Varna in Satyayuga, similarly, all the people became of one caste at the end of Kaliyugi In this way, the Divine century, *i e*, 36,000 years of men passed away in course of which the hungry people devastated all the birds fish, etc—73 79