कर्तारस्तपसां भूयो द्विजतेजोपहारकाः । शिश्वल्पमृत्युकाराश्च मंत्रोच्चारपरायणाः २६ ।
In their eagerness to appropriate a brahmanical splendour they frequently perform penances. They cause infantile and premature deaths by their chanting of mantras.
शालिग्रामशिलादीनां पूजकाहोमतत्पराः । प्रतिकूलविचाराश्च कुटिला द्विजदूषकाः २७ ।
They worship the Śālagrāma stone and other things; they evince some interest in Homas too but in their thoughts and actions they are crooked and antagonistic; they calumniate the brahmins.
धनवंतः कुकर्म्माणो विद्यावन्तो विवादिनः । आख्यायोपासना धर्मवक्तारो धर्मलोपकाः २८ ।
Rich people indulge in misdeeds; learned people take perpetual delight in disputations; those who conduct discourses in holy narratives and expound virtuous rites of worship, themselves abandon virtuous practice of the same.
Haughty persons assume the features of noble kings; those who liberally give, do so with a lot of fuss and haughtiness thinking themselves to be great lords and treating the brahmins and others as their servants.
Devoid of the strict observance of their traditional duties and virtues, the foolish people have brought about an admixture of various castes. Cruel in thought and obsessed by false prestiges, people have discarded the four-fold system of social classification.