Bhishma said-Listen with rapt attention, O powerful king, to the end that silent Reciters attain, and to the various kinds of hell into which they sink, O foremost of men.
भीष्म उवाच शृणुष्वावहितो राजन् जापकानां गतिं विभो। यथा गच्छन्ति निरयाननेकान् पुरुषर्षभ॥