'With rapt attentical, O foremost of kings, listen to it fully as to how in the golden cycle sovereignty was first instituted.
भीष्म उवाच नियतस्त्वं नरव्याघ्र शृणु सर्वमशेषतः। यथा राज्यं समुत्पन्नमादौ कृतयुगेऽभवत्॥