O foremost of men, the degraded caste, the Śūdras, during your rege me, have engaged in austere penances. And in the Kali Yuga asceticism shall be established in the Sūdras.
हीनवर्णो नृपश्रेष्ठ तप्यते सुमहत्तपः। भविष्यच्छूद्रयोन्यां हि तपश्चर्या कलौ युगे॥