Bhishma said Hear, O monarch, from me this hymn, chanted by Brahma himself, and recounted in the days of yore to men on earth by the Brahmanical sages and the celestial.
भीष्म उवाच शृणु चेदं महाराज ब्रह्मभूतं स्तवं मम। ब्रह्मर्षिभिश्च देवैश्च यः पुरा कथितो भुवि॥