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countries will suffer pangs of hunger¹⁷⁵³, squares where four roads meet will be full of *nautch* girls, and women will give up their chastity; cows will yield little milk; trees will produce few flowers and fruits and will abound in crows; brāhmaṇas will receive gifts from kings that are guilty of brāhmaṇa murder and that falsely accuse others of grave sins; people in the various spaces will be dunned for alms by brāhmaṇas steeped in greed and ignorance, who falsely make a pretence of their being religious; householders afraid of the burden of taxation, guilty of thieving and subsisting on trade, will remain concealed under the false garb of ascetics; brāhmaṇas pretending to be brahmacārins will, through greed of wealth, fraudulently allow their nails and hair to grow; persons in the various stages of life, that observe false rules of conduct but are drunkards and indulge in incest, will desire mundane objects and the increase of flesh and blood; the āśramas (forest dwellings) will be full of various heretical opinions and will extol the merits of food provided by others (out of charity); Indra will not send down rain at the proper season and all seeds will not put forth proper growth; people will take delight in killing and will be impure and abundant will be the fruit of adharma; whoever will then be acting according to his dharma may be regarded as having a short time to live, since there will be no dharma whatever (in Kaliyuga);