O Brāhmaṇa, you have delivered this noble narration fraught with morality. Now it behoves you to speak about the elder daughter of the mountain-king. You are extensively conversant with everything relative to men or gods.
धर्मयुक्तमिदं ब्रह्मन् कथितं परमं त्वया। दुहितुः शैलराजस्य ज्येष्ठाया वक्तुमर्हसि। विस्तरं विस्तरज्ञोऽसि दिव्यमानुषसम्भवम्॥