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CHAPTER THIRTEEN dishonest weight, dishonest measure, deceit even in dharma. Virtuous people will be in painful circumstances; the wicked will be very comfortable. In the fifth spoke there will be a decrease in gems, charms, herbs, spells, and of different kinds of knowledge; in money and life; in fruits, flowers, and juices; in beauty; and in height of the body; of dharma and other pure conditions; in the sixth spoke, more so. With merit decreasing gradually in this way as time advances, whoever will have a disposition toward dharma, his life will be fruitful.
An ācārya, named Duşprasaha, a sādhvi Phalguśri a layman Nāgila, a laywoman, Satyasri, a king Vimalavāhana, a minister Sumukha—these will be the last in duhşamā in Bhārata. They will be two cubits tall and will live for twenty years. The penance of the four-Duşprasaha and the others, will be the last two-day fast. Anyone, knowing the Daśavaikālika, he, knowing the fourteen pūrvas, 258 will enlighten the congregation about the doctrine, ending with Duşprasaha. Then dharma will turn downward, but whoever says, “There is no dharma' must be expelled from the congregation by the congregation. After Duşprasaha has passed twelve years as a householder and eight years in the vow, at the end he will go to the heaven Saudharma by means of a three-day fast.
The sixth spoke (152–171) In the morning there will be destruction of right-conduct; at mid-day, of kingly duty; in the afternoon, of fire. Duhşamā will last for twenty-one thousand years; and this will be the length of time of ekāntaduhşamā (duḥşamā-duhşamā). The essence of dharma having perished, the people, full of the cry, ‘Hä, Hā,' will be like cattle without any laws about mother, son, et cetera. Harsh winds with much dust, illomened, will blow. The heavens will smoke, terrifying by day and night. The moon will send forth exceeding cold
258 149. I. e. any one knowing the Daśavaikālika will be considered to know the 14 pūrvas.
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