This could have been the age of discontinuity as claimed by some historians but for the efforts of those seers and bards, who had taken custody of the memories and traditions of a glorious past and preserved them for the later generations. To those seers living in forests and subsisting on food foraged from nature and a few cattle, the stories of the ancients appeared like miracles and their achievements superhuman. In retrospect, their circumstance looked utterly grim and deteriorated. They christened it Kaliyuga. Even the progress that had arrived a few centuries later had not fared
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