Bhishma said Regarding it I shall recite to you an old narrative of what the divine Vyasa said to his son Shuka when the latter had asked the former.
भीष्म उवाच अत्र ते वर्तयिष्येऽहमितिहासं पुरातनम्। जगौ यद् भगवान् व्यासः पुत्राय परिपृच्छते॥