Astika said: O Janamejaya, if you will at all to grant me a boon, let your this sacrifice be stopped and let no more snakes fall into the fire.
आस्तीक उवाच वरं ददासि चेन्मह्यं वृणोमि जनमेजय। सनं ते विरमत्वेतन्न पतेयुरिहोरगाः॥