Kali

Are you?

... it's Kali Yuga.

We're, we are knee-deep in Kali-

I mean, it's hard for us to get decent internet anywhere in India.

What's it gonna be like-

We are knee-deep in Kali Yuga.

I'm su- [laughs] That's a good one.

We are knee-deep in Kali Yuga [laughs] I'm sure-

For some years, the prince and princess lived in great happiness, while Savitri, the bringer of gifts, sent to them first a son and then a greater boon still, a daughter who promised in time to become a second Damayanti.

But now their happiness was destined to be overcast, for Kali, the brooding god of evil and malice, envied Nala the brightness of his life and vowed to bring upon him and upon his faithful wife a doom both swift and terrible.

I will bring his kingdom down to the dust, said Kali.

I will break the bond of love between him and his wife, and I will do all this by means of the love of the dice, which only slumbers in Prince Nala's heart.

Then he wrought in such a manner upon the mind of Nala that the fever of chance and hazard entered into the blood of the prince and prepared him for his fall.

At that moment, Nala was in the company of his brother Pushkara, to whom Kali, unseen, suggested that he should challenge the prince to a game of chance with the object of taking from him all he possessed.

Then Pushkara took the dice box containing the ivory cubes, a large one named the bull and smaller ones known as the cows, and seating himself near his brother, said, Play with me, brother, ere the game of the bulls and cows.

At first, the noble prince refused, but being urged again, consented roughly, and the game began in earnest.

For some years, the prince and princess lived in great happiness, while Savitri, the bringer of gifts, sent to them first a son and then a greater boon still, a daughter who promised in time to become a second Damayanti.

But now their happiness was destined to be overcast, for Kali, the brooding god of evil and malice, envied Nala the brightness of his life and vowed to bring upon him and upon his faithful wife a doom both swift and terrible.

I will bring his kingdom down to the dust, said Kali.

I will break the bond of love between him and his wife, and I will do all this by means of the love of the dice, which only slumbers in Prince Nala's heart.

Then he wrought in such a manner upon the mind of Nala that the fever of chance and hazard entered into the blood of the prince and prepared him for his fall.

At that moment, Nala was in the company of his brother Pushkara, to whom Kali, unseen, suggested that he should challenge the prince to a game of chance with the object of taking from him all he possessed.

Then Pushkara took the dice box containing the ivory cubes, a large one named the bull and smaller ones known as the cows, and, seating himself near his brother, said, Play with me, brother, ere the game of the bulls and cows.

At first the noble prince refused, but being urged again consented roughly, and the game began in earnest.