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The world overrun with trees; they are destroyed by the Prachetasas - Verse 83

Vishnu Purana (GRETIL; M. M. Pathak critical edition) · 1 · Verse 15.83

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Sanskrit Original

कानिष्ठ्यं ज्यैष्ठ्यम अप्य एषां पूर्वं नाभूद द्विजोत्तम तप एव गरीयो ऽभूत प्रभावश चैव कारणम ।।

kāniṣṭhyaṃ jyaiṣṭhyam apy eṣāṃ pūrvaṃ nābhūd dvijottama tapa eva garīyo 'bhūt prabhāvaś caiva kāraṇam ||

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Neither inferiority nor superiority existed among them before, O best of the twice-born; austerity was indeed superior, and that was the cause.