Regaining her senses and bowing to her lord with head (bent), the daughter of Gadhi said to her husband, that foremost one of Bhrigu's race'O twiceborn Rishi, O you who are foremost amongst those versed in Brahma, have mercy on me, your wife, who is thus appeasing you and so order that a Kshatriya son may not be born to me.
प्रतिलभ्य च सा संज्ञां शिरसा प्रणिपत्य च। उवाच भार्या भर्तारं गाधेयी भार्गवर्षभम्॥ प्रसादयन्त्यां भार्यायां मयि ब्रह्मविदां वर। प्रसादं कुरु विप्रर्षे न मे स्यात् क्षत्रियः सुतः॥