Vaishampayana said "Listen, O king, to this wonderful history as it took place in a previous Kalpa. In days of Yore, in the Satya Yoga, O king, all the celestials, duly approaching Varuna, said to him these words.
वैशम्पायन उवाच शृणु राजन्निदं चित्रं पूर्वकल्पे यथातथम्। आदौ कृतयुगे राजन् वर्तमाने यथाविधि॥