Janamejaya said, O best of twice-born ones, it was you who said before this that the Rishi Vashishtha had a son named Shakti and that Shakti had a son named Parashara, and that Parashara begot a son named the Island-born Krishna gifted with great ascetic merit.
जनमेजय उवाच त्वयैव कथितं पूर्वं सम्भवे द्विजसत्तम। वसिष्ठस्य सुतः शक्तिः शक्तिपुत्रः पराशरः॥ पराशरस्य दायादः कृष्णद्वैपायनो मुनिः।