And for houses and farms that were the property of the former age, people of the Tretā Yuga were possessed by envy, the outcome of the quality of darkness. And with the treading of impiety on earth during Tretā, the soiled sin of untruth appeared. And this iniquity stretching one footstep, the lease of people's lives, for sins, became limited.
आमिषं यच्च पूर्वेषां राजसं च मलं भृशम्। अनृतं नाम तद्भूतं क्षिप्तेन पृथिवीतले॥ अनृतं पातयित्वा तु पादमेकमधर्मतः। ततः प्रादुष्कृतं पूर्वमायुषः परिनिष्ठितम्॥