[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Vishnupurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu) › 6.1.49 # Vishnupurana 6.1.49 Viṣṇupurāṇa 6.1.49 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.1.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.6.1.49) kalau jagatpatiṃ viṣṇuṃ sarvasraṣṭāram īśvaram nārcayiṣyanti maitreya pāṣaṇḍopahatā narāḥ // > In the Kali age, Maitreya, men, corrupted by unbelievers, will refrain from adoring Vishńu, the lord of sacrifice, the creator and lord of all; and will say, "Of what authority are the Vedas? what are gods or Brahmans? what need is there of purification with water?" Then will the clouds yield scanty rain: then will the corn be light in ear, and the grain will be poor, and of little sap: garments will be mostly made of the fibres of the San: the principal of trees will be the Sami: the prevailing caste will be the Śúdra: millet will be the more common grain: the milk in use will be chiefly that of goats: unguents will be made of Usíra grass. The mother and father-in-law will be venerated in place of parents; and a man's friends will be his brother-in-law, or one who has a wanton wife. Men will say, "Who has a father? who has a mother? each one is born according to his deeds:" and therefore they will look upon a wife's or husband's parents as their own. Endowed with little sense, men, subject to all the infirmities of mind, speech, and body, will daily commit sins; and every thing that is calculated to afflict beings, vicious, impure, and wretched, will be generated in the Kali age. Then shall some places follow a separate duty, devoid of holy study, oblations to fire, and invocations of the gods. Then, in the Kali age, shall a man acquire by a trifling exertion as much eminence in virtue as is the result of arduous penance in the Krita age, or age of purity. > — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition - [Previous: 6.1.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.6.1.48) - [Next: 6.1.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.6.1.50) - [Up: 6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.6.1) ## Translations (2) - [The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-wilson.6.1.7) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English - [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.6.1.p7) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English ## Other recensions (1) - [Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.6.1.50) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (3) - [Brahmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.brahma.230.49) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Smṛtiratnākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.smrtiratnakara.1.p8) — Veṅkaṭanātha, Sanskrit - [Smṛtiratnākara (Viṭṭhalanātha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.smrtiratnakara-vitthala.1.p8) — Viṭṭhalanātha, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.6.1.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.6.1.49) · Pramāṇa