Verse 8

⁵Kali, though he had entered here on every side, could not prevail so long as the great lord of the earth, the son of Abhimanyu, was sole king. ⁶On the very day, in the very hour, that the Bhagavan left the earth, that Kali in whom wrongdoing has its rise came in after him here. ⁷The emperor bore Kali no hatred, taking the pith of the thing as a bee takes it; for in that age good things done come quickly to their fruit, and the rest do not. ⁸What is Kali, after all, brave against children and afraid of the steady, who moves among careless men like a wolf and is himself never careless?