Example sentences:

Ramayana: Yudhishthira shook his head, unable to comprehend how events had cascaded from his sitting as the world emperor at the gambling table to his becoming a slave of the Kauravas

 Mahabharata: Seeing the fallen Lakshmana, Rama bemoaned the adverse destiny because of which things had cascaded from his being enthroned to his being exiled and losing his father, wife and now brother.

Bhagavad-gita: The Gita (02.62-63) outlines how an innocuous contemplation can cascade into a disastrous self-destruction