Markandeya said : That auspicious one, at the command of her father to relate everything in detail, regarded his words like those of a god and said thus,
मार्कण्डेय उवाच सा ब्रूहि विस्तरेणेति पित्रा संचोदिता शुभा। तदैव तस्य वचनं प्रतिगृह्येदमब्रवीत्॥