Narada said : O son of Pritha, Yudhishthira, listen to it with your brothers, as I narrate this old story exactly as every thing happened.
नारद उवाच शृणु मे विस्तरेणेममितिहासं पुरातनम्। भ्रातृभिः सहितः पार्थ यथावृत्तं युधिष्ठिर॥