Sūta said:: They used to wear leaves, bark-garments or hides of antelopes. They observed no holy rites. They had abandoned their families. They had fallen off from the systematic discipline of the castes and stages of life. They had been adopting the terrible practice of Saṅkara (mixing of castes by means of indiscriminate inter marriage etc.). They had reached such a plight. Only a very few such people survived.