Bhishma said I shall certainly recite to you discourses that are charming on the subject, o king, of the power of this Vishnu as displayed in days of yore and as I have heard (from my preceptors).
भीष्म उवाच अहं ते कथयिष्यामि कथामतिमनोहराम्। अस्य विष्णोः पुरा राजन् प्रभावो यो मया श्रुतः॥