began to wear necklaces of gold and other ornaments and fine robes, and used to remain in their houses or go away before their very eyes.  They began to derive great pleasure from sports and diversions in which their women were dressed as men and their men as women.  Those amongst their ancestors that were affluent had made gifts of wealth unto deserving persons.  The descendants of the donors, even when in prosperous conditions, began to resume, for their unbelief, those gifts.  When difficulties threatened the accomplishment of any purpose and friend sought the counsel of friend, that purpose was frustrated by the latter even if he had any interest of the slightest value to subserve by frustrating it.  Amongst even their better classes have appeared traders and dealers in goods, intent upon taking the wealth of others.  The Sudras amongst them have taken to the practice of penances.  Some amongst them have begun to study, without making any rules for regulating their hours and food.  Others have begun to study, making rules that are useless.  Disciples have abstained from rendering obedience and service to preceptors.  Preceptors again have come to treat disciples as friendly companions.  Fathers and mothers are worn out with work, and have abstained from indulging in festivities.  Parents in old age, divested of power over sons, have been forced to beg their food of the latter.  Amongst them, even persons of wisdom, conversant with the Vedas, and resembling the ocean itself in gravity of deportment, have begun to betake themselves to agriculture and such other pursuits.  Persons who are illiterate and ignorant have begun to be fed at Sraddhas.[864] Every morning, disciples, instead of approaching preceptors for making dutiful enquiries for ascertaining what acts awaited accomplishment and for seeking commissions which they are to discharge, are themselves waited upon by preceptors who discharge those functions.  Daughters-in-law, in the presence of their husbands’ mothers and fathers, rebuke and chastise servants and maids, and summoning their husband’s lecture and rebuke them.  Sires, with great care, seek to keep sons in good humour, or dividing through fear their wealth among children, live in woe and affliction.[865] Even persons enjoying the friendship of the victims, beholding the latter deprived of wealth in conflagrations or by robbers or by the king, have begun to indulge in laughter from feelings of mockery.  They have become ungrateful and unbelieving and sinful and addicted to adulterous congress with even the spouses of their preceptors.  They have betaken themselves to eating forbidden food.  They have transgressed all bounds and restraints.  They have become divested of that splendour which had distinguished them before.  In consequence of these and other indications of wicked conduct and the reversal of their former nature, I shall not, O chief of the gods, dwell among them any longer.  I have, therefore, come to thee of my own accord.