Understanding from this incident that the hour was not suited to sacred recitation, Vyasa immediately ordered his son to stop the recitation. Shuka, thus forbidden by his father, became filled with curiosity.
ततोऽनध्याय इति तं व्यासः पुत्रमवारयत्। शुको वारितमात्रस्तु कौतूहलसमन्वितः॥