Like the small ponds at which cattle drink or the shallow canals along cultivated fields, that dry up very soon, the eternal practices laid down in the Smrities, falling into discontinuance, at last disappear for good.
निपानानीव गोभ्योऽपि क्षेत्रे कुल्ये च भारत। स्मृतिर्हि शाश्वते धर्मो विप्रहीणो न दृश्यते॥