Thus addressed by those ascetics, the celestial Rishi, viz., the divine Narada, then recited the following story whose incidents had ken place sometime before.
एवमुक्तः स मुनिभिर्नारदो भगवान् मुनिः। कथयामास देवर्षिः पूर्ववृत्तामिमां कथाम्॥