In the Krita cycle, O son, they did not live on Earth. It is from the Treta that they sprang and began to multiply, O chief of Bharata's race.
नैते कृतयुगे तात चरन्ति पृथिवीमिमाम्। त्रेताप्रभृति वर्धन्ते ते जना भरतर्षभ॥