When this confusion set in amongst men, the Vedas disappeared. Upon the disappearance of the Vedas, the righteousness also was gone.
विप्लुते नरलोके वै ब्रह्म चैव ननाश ह। नाशाच्च ब्रह्मणो राजन् धर्मो नाशमथागमत्॥