I am desirous to hear all about the life and achievements of that intelligent king. I should also like to hear when and how his name became Mandhata, belonging as it did to the greatly effulgent Indra and how that matchlessly powerful hero was born, you are greatly-skilled in the art of narrating all events, (narrate all this to me).
एतदिच्छाम्यहं श्रोतुं चरितं तस्यधीमतः। यथा मान्धातृशब्दश्च तस्य शक्रसमद्युतेः। जन्म चाप्रतिवीर्यस्य कुशलो ह्यसि भाषितुम्॥