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Vishnupurana 4.24.15

Viṣṇupurāṇa (critical edition) 4.24.15

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4.24.15

māgadhāyāṃ tu viśvasphaṭikasaṃjño 'nyān varṇān kariṣyati |
kaivartapaṭupulindabrāhmaṇān rājye sthāpayiṣyati |
utsādyākhilakṣatrajātim |
nava nāgāḥ padmāvatyāṃ nāma puryāṃ mathurāyām anugaṅgāprayāgaṃ māgadhā guptāś ca bhokṣyanti |
kośalauḍrapuṇḍratāmraliptān samudrataṭapurīṃ ca devarakṣito rakṣiṣyati |
kaliṅgamāhiṣakamāhendrā bhaumāṃ guhāṃ bhokṣyanti |
naiṣadhanaimiṣikakālatoyān janapadān maṇidhānakavaṃśyā bhokṣyanti |
trairājyamūṣikajanapadān kanakāhvayā bhokṣyanti |
saurāṣṭrāvantiśūdrān arbudamarubhūmiviṣayāṃś ca vrātyā dvijābhīraśūdrādyā bhokṣyanti |
sindhutaṭadāvikorvīcandrabhāgākāśmīraviṣayāṃś ca vrātyā mlecchādayaḥ śūdrā bhokṣyanti |
ete ca tulyakālāḥ sarve pṛthivyāṃ bhūbhṛto bhaviṣyanti |
alpaprasādā bṛhatkopāḥ sarvakālam anṛtādharmarucayaḥ strībālagovadhakartāraḥ parasvādānarucayo 'lpasārā uditāstamitaprāyāḥ svalpāyuṣo mahecchā hy alpadharmāś ca bhaviṣyanti ||

In Magadhá a sovereign named Viśwasphat́ika will establish other tribes; he will extirpate the Kshatriya or martial race, and elevate fishermen, barbarians, and Brahmans, and other castes, to power. The nine Nágas will reign in Padmávati, Kántipuri, and Mathurá; and the Guptas of Magadhá along the Ganges to Prayága. A prince named Devarakshita will reign, in a city on the sea shore, over the Kośalas, Od́ras, Puńd́ras, and Támraliptas. The Guhas will possess Kálinga, Máhihaka, and the mountains of Mahendra. The race of Mańidhanu will occupy the countries of the Nishádas, Naimishikas, and Kálatoyas. The people called Kanakas will possess the Amazon country, and that called Múshika. Men of the three tribes, but degraded, and Ábhíras and Śúdras, will occupy Śaurásht́ra, Avanti, Śúra, Arbuda, and Marubhúmi: and Śúdras, outcastes, and barbarians will be masters of the banks of the Indus, Dárvika, the Chandrabhágá, and Káshmir.

Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition

These will all be contemporary monarchs, reigning over the earth; kings of churlish spirit, violent temper, and ever addicted to falsehood and wickedness. They will inflict death on women, children, and cows; they will seize upon the property of their subjects; they will be of limited power, and will for the most part rapidly rise and fall; their lives will be short, their desires insatiable, and they will display but little piety. The people of the various countries intermingling with them will follow their example, and the barbarians being powerful in the patronage of the princes, whilst purer tribes are neglected, the people will perish. Wealth and piety will decrease day by day, until the world will be wholly depraved. Then property alone will confer rank; wealth will be the only source of devotion; passion will be the sole bond of union between the sexes; falsehood will be the only means of success in litigation; and women will be objects merely of sensual gratification. Earth will be venerated but for its mineral treasures; the Brahmanical thread will constitute a Brahman; external types (as the staff and red garb) will be the only distinctions of the several orders of life; dishonesty will be the universal means of subsistence; weakness will be the cause of dependance; menace and presumption will be substituted for learning; liberality will be devotion; simple ablution will be purification; mutual assent will be marriage; fine clothes will be dignity; and water afar off will be esteemed a holy spring. Amidst all castes he who is the strongest will reign over a principality thus vitiated by many faults. The people, unable to bear the heavy burdens imposed upon them by their avaricious sovereigns, will take refuge amongst the valleys of the mountains, and will be glad to feed upon wild honey, herbs, roots, fruits, flowers, and leaves: their only covering will be the bark of trees, and they will be exposed to the cold, and wind, and sun, and rain. No man's life will exceed three and twenty years. Thus in the Kali age shall decay constantly proceed, until the human race approaches its annihilation.

Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition

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