Extent of four Yugas (caturyuga-parimāṇa) - Verse 65
Linga Purana (GRETIL / Wisdomlib) · 1 · Verse 40.65
Sanskrit Original
प्रजास्ता वै ततः सर्वाः परस्परभयार्दिताः। व्याकुलाश च परिभ्रान्तास त्यक्त्वा दारान गृहाणि च।।
prajāstā vai tataḥ sarvāḥ parasparabhayārditāḥ| vyākulāś ca paribhrāntās tyaktvā dārān gṛhāṇi ca||
Indra said: Getting infuriated mutually (the people will attack one another). Pramiti will defeat all those alien outcastes and all unrighteous persons and ultimately rest in the middle land between the Gaṅgā and Yamuna along with his ministers and followers, after killing all the kings and alien outcastes in thousands. When the sandhyāṃśa period sets in at the end of the yuga there will be groups of people among the subjects left behind here and there. Getting unrestrained and covetous they will be attacking and killing one another. When anarchy spreads in view of the series of affairs in the yuga, when people begin to suspect one another, all those people will be afflicted by fear. Agitated and bewildered they will leave off their wives and houses. They will not care even for their own lives. Though themselves miserable yet they will be worthless. When the holy rites laid down in the Śrutis and Smṛtis perish, these people will attack and kill one another. When Dharma is destroyed they will become mannerless, unbounded, shameless and unloving. They will not hesitate to attack one another. They will be stunted in growth and live as far as twenty-five years.[5] Getting involved in disputes they will abandon wives and sons. When lack of rain affects them they will abandon agriculture. They will leave off their land and resort to frontiers.[6] They will resort to rivers, oceans, mountains and wells.