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Bhagavai 7:6:119-121
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will be with variegated limbs, with movement like that of a locust, with bad joint, with bad binding, with bones not duly set with bad formation, with bad structure, with unusual formation, ugly, with ugly seat, ugly bed and ugly food, with uncleaned body, with limbs suffering from many diseases, with faltering and unsteady movement, lacking enthusiasm, devoid of stamina, lacking in endeavour, lacking lustre, with every limbs, full of dirty dust and dust-particles which have been scattered about by cool, hot, dry and harsh wind. Anger, pride, deceit and greed will be predominant in them. Their suffering is productive of further suffering. They will be devoid of religious proclivity and enlightened world-view. Their body will be one ratni equivalent to one cubit in length. Their maximum life-span will be sixteen or twenty years. They will have deep affection for their sons and grandsons. Their habitat will be some burrows in the vicinity of the great rivers Ganga and Sindhu and mountain Vaitādhya or they will live in caves. Only seventy-two families of these human beings will survive as a few seeds which
would serve as genes for future human species. 7.120 te nam bhamte! maņuyā kam āhāram āhārehimti? goyamā! tenam kälenam tenam samaenam gamgā-simdhūo mahānadio rahapahavittharāo akkhasoyappamānamettam jalam vojjhihimti, se vi ya nam jale bahumacchaka chabhāinne, no ceva nam āubahule bhavissati. tae nam te manuyā sūrūggamanamuhuttamsi ya süratthamanamuhuttamsi ya bilehimto niddhāhimti, niddhāittā maccha-kacchabhe thalāim gāhehimti, gāhettā sītātavatattaehim, maccha-kacchaehim ekkavīsam vāsasahas sāim vittim kappemāņā viharissamti. O Lord! what kind of food will those human beings eat? Gautama! in that age, at that time, the two great rivers, viz., Gangā and Sindhu will remain only as wide as the path of the chariot. The flow of water in them will be as thin as the hole in the axle of the wheel. That water will be infested with fishes and tortoises. The amount of water will be very meagre. Those humans will come out of their burrows, within forty-eight minutes after the sunrise and forty-eight minutes before the sunset and take out fishes and tortoises (from the river) and then, after taking them at a dry place, they will roast them in the scorching cold and heat. They will lead
such life for the period of twenty-one thousand years. 7.121 te nam bhamte! manuyā nissīlā nigguņā nimmerā nippaccakkhänapo
sahovavāsā, ussannam mamsāhārā macchāhärä khoddähärä kunimāhārā kālamāse kälam kiccā kahim gacchihimti? kahim uvavajjihimti? goyamā! ussannam naraga-tirikkhajoniesu uvavajjihimti. Where will those humans, O Lord! who will be devoid of sila (great vows and small vows), devoid of virtue, devoid of decency, not observing any kind
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