Vyasa said: O (mother) Satyavati, you know what is virtue, both as regards this world and the next. O lady of great wisdom, your mind is also fixed on virtue. Therefore, making virtue my motive, I shall, at your command, do what you desire, knowing (as I do) that this practice is conformable to the true and eternal religion. I shall produce for my brother sons that will be like Yama and Varuna.
व्यास उवाच वेत्थ धर्मं सत्यवति परं चापरमेव च॥ तथा तव महाप्राज्ञे धर्मे प्रणिहिता मतिः। तस्मादहं त्वन्नियोगाद् धर्ममुद्दिश्य कारणम्॥ ईप्सितं ते करिष्यामि दृष्टं ह्येतत् सनातनम्। भ्रातुः पुत्रान् प्रदास्यामि मित्रावरुणयोः समान्॥