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The sixty-seventh parsha
556. Those who are constantly afflicted by hunger, thirst, and other ailments, will be diseased and unable to find any remedy. They will only experience the taste of suffering. || 446 ||
As time passes, when the final time of the Atiduhsama period arrives, all the water will dry up, and just like the body, it will be destroyed. || 447 ||
The earth will become extremely dry and cracked in many places. The fear of destruction will cause all the trees to wither and become discolored. || 448 ||
In this way, the destruction of all living beings will occur. A few humans will take refuge on the platforms of the Ganga, Sindhu rivers, and the Vijayadha mountain. They will survive by eating fish, frogs, turtles, and crabs that are born in the mouths of rivers. Some wicked, poor, and low-born creatures from seventy-two families will hide in small burrows. || 449-450 ||
Then, for seven days at a time, clouds will rain down sweet, tasteless, sharp, rough, hot, poisonous, and salty water. After this, the unevenness (high and low) of the earth will disappear, and the land will become uniform, like the Chitra earth. This will mark the end of the Apsarpini period. || 451-453 ||
After this, the Atiduhsama period of the Utsarpini period will begin. It will also last for twenty-one thousand years. During this time, the population will increase.