12 Journal of the Asiatic Socvety of Bengal, [January, 1906, 
At the end of the Krita yuga, there grew in the human kind a 
tendency for eating animal food. Indulgence in this brought out 
the development of the distinction of sex Sexual attachment and 
union became necessary for the multiplication of the race.! Hence- 
of the sexual abuse, 7.e., adultery, for instance, prevailed in this 
age. Modesty and shame now came into prominence in the human 
conduct, which created the necessity of residence in houses. 
People learnt the art of house-building. Birth from the womb 
became the necessary result of procreation. On account of the free- 
dom from the three principal root-vices which this age enjoyed, it 
came to be known by the name Teta yuga or Sumdan* Its dura- 
tion was 1,296,000 years. At the approach of a more degenerate 
neither tilled the soil nor sown grain, came and reaped the corn. 
ere grew much confusion in the division of the produce which 
all the three parties claimed as their own. This brought in the 
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