Vaishampayana said: O Bharata, when the descendant of the Vrishnis and the Dharmaraja were thus conversing, the high-souled Markandeya, of great devotion, grown wise by austerities, who had lived many thousands of years, was seen to approach (there). Being immortal and without signs of senility, endued with beauty and magnanimity.
वैशम्पायन उवाच तथा वदति वार्ष्णेयेधर्मराजे च भारता अथ पश्चात् तपोवृद्धो बहुवर्षसहाधृक्॥ प्रत्यदृश्यतधर्मात्मा मार्कण्डेयो महातपाः। अजरश्चामरश्चैव रूपौदार्यगुणान्वितः॥