Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 41

Sanskrit:

तन्नाथास्ते जनपदास्तच्छीलाचारवादिन: ।अन्योन्यतो राजभिश्च क्षयं यास्यन्ति पीडिता: ॥ ४१ ॥

ITRANS:

tan-nāthās te janapadāstac-chīlācāra-vādinaḥanyonyato rājabhiś cakṣayaṁ yāsyanti pīḍitāḥ

Translation:

The citizens governed by these low-class kings will imitate the character, behavior and speech of their rulers. Harassed by their leaders and by each other, they will all suffer ruination.

Purport:

At the end of the Ninth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, it is stated that Ripuñjaya, or Purañjaya, the first king mentioned in this chapter, ended his rule about one thousand years after the time of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Since Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared approximately five thousand years ago, Purañjaya must have appeared about four thousand years ago. That would mean that Viśvasphūrji, the last king mentioned, would have appeared approximately in the twelfth century of the Christian era. Modern Western scholars have made the false accusation that Indian religious literature has no sense of chronological history. But the elaborate historical chronology described in this chapter certainly refutes that naive assessment.