Sauti said During the continuance of his Sacrifice, Janamejaya, the royal son of Parikshit, taking advantage of an interval in the sacrificial rites, and when all the learned Brahmanas were resting, O Shaunaka, that king of kings, addressed the grand-father of his grand-father, viz., the Island-born Rishi Krishna, otherwise called Vyasa, that ocean of Vedic learning, that foremost of ascetics gifted with power, and said these words.
सौतिरुवाच तस्मिन् यज्ञे वर्तमाने राज्ञः पारिक्षितस्य वै॥ कर्मान्तरेषु विधिवद् वर्तमानेषु शौनक। कृष्णद्वैपायनं व्यासमृर्षि वेदनिधिं प्रभुम्॥ परिपप्रच्छ राजेन्द्रः पितामहपितामहम्।