He whom learned Brahmanas call the mindbegotten son of the Grandfather, viz., Vashishtha gifted with great intelligence and like an ocean of penances, and whose splendour excells that of the Sun himself, will be the progenitor of a family in which a great Rishi of the name of Parashara, endued with mighty energy and prowess, will take his birth. That foremost of persons, that ocean of Vedas, that habitation of penances, will become your father. You shall take your birth as the son of a maiden living in the house of her father, through an act of sexual union with the great Rishi Parashara.
यं मानसं वै प्रवदन्ति विप्राः पितामहस्योत्तमबुद्धियुक्तमा वसिष्ठमयं च तपोनिधानं यस्यातिसूर्यं व्यतिरिच्यते भाः॥ तस्यान्वये चापि ततो महर्षिः पराशरो नाम महाप्रभावः। पिता स ते वेदनिधिर्वरिष्ठो महातपा वै तपसो निवासः॥ कानीनगर्भः पितृकन्यकायां तस्मादृषेस्त्वं भविता च पुत्रः॥