In that dreadful period, when righteousness was lost, O Yudhishthira, men in hunger, lost their senses and began to eat one another.
तस्मिन् प्रतिभये काले क्षते धर्मे युधिष्ठिर। बभूवुः क्षुधिता माः खादमानाः परस्परम्॥