History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.649.4

v4.c63.t2.649.4

251) also says the same. The respect for the purāṇas carried away late medieval writers so far that relying on some prophetic passages in the purāṇas about the disappearance of four varṇas in the Kali age and the subsistence of only brāhmaṇas and śūdras therein, they denied the existence of kṣatriyas and vaiśyas in the Kali age, in spite of the fact that all smṛtis (like Manu, Yāj., Parāśara) and many commentaries (including the Mitākṣarā) hold that the four varṇas exist in the Kali age.