Having read the Puranas with great pains he was very learned in them. Now with joined hands he addressed them thus, "What, Reverend Sirs, do you wish to hear? What am I to relate?"
पौराणिकः पुराणे कृतश्रमः स कृताञ्जलिस्तानुवाच। किं भवन्तः श्रोतुमिच्छन्ति किमहं ब्रवाणीति॥