Kshatriyas also betake themselves to the practice of religious acts.  In the Kali age, the Brahmanas also abstain from sacrifices and the study of the Vedas, are divested of their staff and deer-skin, and in respect of food become omnivorous.  And, O son, the Brahmanas in that age also abstain from prayers and meditation while the Sudras betake themselves to these!  The course of the world looketh contrary, and indeed, these are the signs that foreshadow the Universal Destruction.  And, O lord of men, numerous Mleccha kings then rule over the earth!  And those sinful monarchs, addicted to false speech, govern their subjects on principles that are false.  The Andhhas, the Sakas, the Pulindas, the Yavanas, the Kamvojas, the Valhikas and the Abhiras, then become, O best of men, possessed of bravery and the sovereignty of the earth.  This, O tiger among men, becometh the state of the world during the eve, O Bharata, of the Kali age!  Not a single Brahmana then adhereth to the duties of his order.  And the Kshatriyas and the Vaisyas also, O monarch, follow practices contrary to those that are proper for their own orders.  And men become short-lived, weak in strength, energy, and prowess; and endued with small might and diminutive bodies, they become scarcely truthful in speech.  And the human population dwindles away over large tracts of country, and the regions of the earth, North and South, and East and West, become crowded with animals and beasts of prey.  And during this period, they also that utter Brahma, do so in vain.  The Sudras address Brahmanas, saying, Bho, while the Brahmanas address Sudras, saying Respected Sir.  And, O tiger among men, at the end of the Yuga, animals increase enormously.  And, O king, odours and perfumes do not then become so agreeable to our sense of scent, and, O tiger among men, the very tastes of things do not then so well accord with our organs of taste as at other periods!  And, O king, women then become mothers of numerous progeny, endued with low statures, and destitute of good behaviour and good manners.  And they also make their very mouths serve the purposes of the organ of procreation.  And famine ravages the habitations of men, and the highways are infested by women of ill fame, while females in general, O king, become at such periods hostile to their lords and destitute of modesty!  And, O king, the very kine at such periods yield little milk, while the trees, sat over with swarms of crows, do not produce many flowers and fruits.  And, O lord of the earth, regenerate classes, tainted with the sin of slaying Brahmanas, accept gifts from monarchs that are addicted to falsehood in speech.  And filled with covetousness and ignorance, and bearing on their persons the outward symbols of religion, they set out on eleemosynary rounds, afflicting the people of the Earth.  And people leading domestic lives, afraid of the burden of taxes, become deceivers, while Brahmanas, falsely assuming the garb of ascetics, earn wealth by trade, with nails and hair unpared