I shall now recite to you a history consisting of the conclusions of both religion and profit. In days of yore when the Danavas had multiplied and done away with all impediments and distinctions, the powerful Mandhatri, O monarch, became king. That lord of the Earth, viz., king Mandhatri, celebrated a great sacrifice with a view to see the powerful Narayana, that god of gods, without beginning, middle, and end.
अत्र ते वर्तयिष्यामि धर्ममर्थविनिश्चयम्। निर्मर्यादे वर्तमाने दानवैकार्णवे पुरा॥ बभूव राजा राजेन्द्र मान्धाता नाम वीर्यवान्। पुरा वसुमतीपालो यज्ञं चक्रे दिदृक्षया॥ अनादिमध्यनिधनं देवं नारायणं प्रभुम्। स राजा राजशार्दूल मान्धाता परमेश्वरम्॥