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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 17]
who shall be unprotected by their masters, the bona fide  vaiśyas , or the mercantile community. In the  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 18.44), it is said that the  vaiśyas  are meant to deal in agriculture, cow protection and trade. In the age of Kali, the degraded  vaiśyas , or the mercantile men, are engaged in supplying cows to slaughterhouses. The  kṣatriyas  are meant to protect the citizens of the state, whereas the  vaiśyas  are meant to protect the cows and bulls and utilize them to produce grains and milk. The cow is meant to deliver milk, and the bull is meant to produce grains. But in the age of Kali, the  śūdra  class of men are in the posts of administrators, and the cows and bulls, or the mothers and the fathers, unprotected by the  vaiśyas , are subjected to the slaughterhouses organized by the  śūdra  administrators.
TEXT 2
वृषं मृणालधवलं मेहन्तमिव विभ्यतम् । वेपमानं पदैकेन सीदन्तं शूद्रताडितम् ॥ २ ॥
vṛṣam mṛṇāla-dhavalam mehantam iva bibhyatam vepamānam padaikena sīdantam śūdra-tāḍitam
vṛṣam —the bull;  mṛṇāla-dhavalam —as white as a white lotus;  mehantam —urinating;  iva —as if;  bibhyatam —being too afraid;  vepamānam —trembling;  padā ekena —standing on only one leg;  sīdantam —terrified;  śūdra-tāḍitam —being beaten by a  śūdra .
TRANSLATION
The bull was as white as a white lotus flower. He was terrified of the  śūdra  who was beating him, and he was so afraid that he was standing on one leg, trembling and urinating.
PURPORT
The next symptom of the age of Kali is that principles of religion, which are all spotlessly white, like the white lotus flower, will be attacked by the uncultured  śūdra  population of the age. They may be descendants of  brāhmaṇa  or  kṣatriya  forefathers, but in the age of Kali, for want of sufficient education and culture of Vedic wisdom, such  śūdra -like popula-