Accordingly, in that age, the Vedas, and sacrifices, and the distinctions between the several orders, and the four modes of life, existed in a body. On account, however, of the decrease in the period of life in Dvapara, all these, it that age, fall off from that compact condition.
त्रेतायां संहता वेदा यज्ञा वर्णाश्रमास्तथा। संरोधादायुषस्त्वेते भ्रश्यन्ते द्वापरे युगे॥