These matters are dwelt with in this tenth Sauptika Parva. The great Vyasa composed it in eighteen chapters. The numbers of slokas composed in it by the great reciter of the sacred truths, is eight hundred and seventy.
एतद्वैदशमं पर्व सौप्तिकं समुदाहृतम्। अष्टादशास्मिन्नध्यायाः पर्वण्युक्ता महात्मना॥ श्लोकानां कथितान्यत्र शतान्यष्टौ प्रसंख्यया। श्लोकाश्च सप्ततिः प्रोक्ता मुनिना ब्रह्मवादिना॥