When the Kali age begins, through the wickedness of kings and no account of the nature of the age itself, fifteen parts of even that fourth portion of virtue disappear, a sixteenth portion thereof being all that then remains.
तथा कलियुगे प्राप्ते राज्ञो दुश्चरितेन ह। भवेत् कालविशेषण कला धर्मस्य षोडशी॥