By the non-performance of sacrifices and by the performance of impure marriages, by the leaving off of the study of the Vedas, high families become degenerated, as also by insults to the Brahmanas.
अनिज्यया कुविवाहैर्वेदस्योत्सादनेन च। कुलान्यकुलतां यान्ति धर्मस्यातिक्रमेण च॥