Bhishma said This ancient history is narrated describing the subject of the conquest, by a householder, of Death, by the practice of virtue.
भीष्म उवाच अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम्। यथा मृत्युर्गृहस्थेन धर्ममाश्रित्य निर्जितः॥