the wife of "adharma" (vice) was "himsá" (violence), on whom he begot a son "anrita" (falsehood), and a daughter "nikriti" (immorality): they intermarried, and had two sons, "bhaya" (fear) and "naraka" (hell); and twins to them, two daughters, "maya" (deceit) and vedaná (grief), who became their wives. the son of bhaya and máyá was the destroyer of living creatures, or "mrityu" (death); and "dukha" (pain) was the offspring of naraka and vedaná. the children of mrityu were "vyádhi" (disease), "jará" (decay), "soka" (sorrow), "trishńa" (greediness), and "krodha" (wrath). these are all called the inflictors of misery, and are characterised as the progeny of vice (adharma). they are all without wives, without posterity, without the faculty to procreate; they are the terrible forms of vishńu, and perpetually operate as causes of the destruction of this world. on the contrary, daksha and the other rishis, the elders of mankind, tend perpetually to influence its renovation: whilst the manus and their sons, the heroes endowed with mighty power, and treading in the path of truth, as constantly contribute to its preservation.