The Ministers said: Hear, O king, what you have asked. Hear an account of that king of the world, your illustrious father's life and how he left this world.
मन्त्रिणः ऊचुः शृणु पार्थिव यद्भषे पितुस्तव महात्मनः। चरितं पार्थिवेन्द्रस्य यथा निष्ठां गतश्च सः॥