Verse 23

²¹Knowing that Kali has arrived, we are seated here in this field sacred to Visnu, at a long sacrificial session, with the leisure to hear of Hari. ²²We wish to get across Kali, hard to cross, which strips people of their strength, and the Ordainer has shown you to us, as a helmsman is shown to those who mean to cross the sea. ²³Tell us: now that Krsna, lord of yoga, devoted to the brahmanas, the very armour of dharma, has gone to his own abode, to whom has dharma gone for refuge?