Listen now to me as I recount that story which Narada told before Indra. I shall describe it in the same way in which the celestial Rishi had described it, and for the same purpose that he had in view.”
यथा येन च कल्पेन स तस्मै द्विजसत्तमः। कथां कथितवान् पृष्टस्तथा त्वमपि मे शृणु॥