Pramiti’s campaign and the return of Krita

75. When the concluding twilight of the age has arrived in this way, a chastiser of those wicked people arises from the line of the Bhrigus. 76. His lineage is Chandramas and his name is Pramiti. In the earlier Svayambhuva period, he was of a portion of Madhava. 77. He travelled over the earth for twenty full years, drawing together an army with horses, chariots and elephants. 78. Surrounded by hundreds and thousands of Brahmins who had taken up weapons, he then kills mlecchas by the thousand. 79. Going everywhere and killing those kings born from Shudra wombs, the powerful ruler then killed all the pashandas, leaving none. 80. He kills every one of those who are not very righteous, those born from a reversal of the social orders, and those who live by them: 81. people of the north and the middle country, mountain people, easterners and westerners, those on the Vindhya slopes and in the western borderlands; 82. likewise southerners, Dravidas together with Sinhalas, Gandharas, Paradas, Pahlavas and Yavanas; 83. Tusharas, Varvaras, Chinas, Shulikas, Daradas, Khasas, Lampakas and Ketas, and the peoples of the Kiratas. 84. The mighty ruler, whose wheel had set forth, who brought the mlecchas to their end and could not be overcome by any being, ranged over the earth. 85. He was born from a portion of the god Madhava. Those who knew the course of former births knew the powerful man by the name Pramiti. 86. The ruler belonged to the Chandramas lineage in the former Kali age. When the thirty-second year had arrived, he set out for twenty years [of campaigning]. 87. He killed human beings by the thousand. Through harsh deeds he reduced the earth to a remnant of its generative strength, acting in anger provoked by others and in anger without a cause. 88. Having subdued those mostly unrighteous vrishalas, he and his followers reached their end between the Ganges and the Yamuna. 89. After he had passed away, with ministers and soldiers, having destroyed all the kings and thousands of mlecchas, 90. in that concluding twilight at the end of the age, only a few people remained here and there. 91. Then, unrestrained in their conduct, they injured one another in groups and fell upon one another. 92. With uncertainty and the absence of a king brought on by the age, all those people were tormented by fear of each other. 93. Distraught and exhausted, abandoning wives and homes and looking only to their own lives, they reached their end in great misery. 94. When the religious duties taught in revelation and tradition had perished, they killed one another. They had no boundaries, no appeal for help, no affection and no shame. 95. With rain gone, they were stricken, short in stature and twenty-five years in lifespan. They abandoned wives and children, their faculties overwhelmed by despair. 96. Suffering and struck by drought, they gave up their livelihoods and left their own settled countries to live in frontier regions. 97. Then they resorted to rivers, seas, wells and mountains. In great misery they lived on honey, meat, roots and fruit. 98. They wore bark garments and animal skins, without leaves or possessions. Fallen from the social orders and stages of life, they entered into dreadful intermixture. 99. The few people remaining had reached this extremity. Beset by old age, disease and hunger, suffering brought them to disillusionment. 100. From disillusionment came reflection; from reflection, a state of balance; within that balance, awakening; from awakening, conduct governed by dharma. 101. When the survivors of Kali reached this condition of their own accord, the age changed for them in a single day and night. 102. Having bewildered their minds, that seventh [the referent is unclear in this wording]—through the force of what was to come, Krita then began. 103. When the Krita age began again, the survivors of Kali gave rise to the people of Krita. 104. The accomplished ones who remain here and move about in plain sight, and the Seven Sages, were always stationed there. 105. Those Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras remembered as the seed of future people were then all together with those born in Kali, without distinction. 106. The Seven Sages taught them, and the others, the twofold dharma of revelation and tradition, joined to the conduct of the social orders and stages of life. 107. Then the people lived in Krita with those observances in practice. The Seven Sages showed the people of Krita the dharma of revelation and tradition. 108. To establish dharma among them, the sages remained here until the age ended, continuing in their offices through the manvantara. 109. Just as, when grass is burnt by a forest fire in the hot season, new growth is first seen arising from its roots, 110. so one age succeeds another in an unbroken line, continuing until the manvantara comes to an end.