O sinless one, O foremost of the twice borne. I desire to hear narrated by you in detail all this which became the cause of the destruction of all the world.
विस्तरेणैतदिच्छामि कथ्यमानं त्वया द्विजा मूलं ह्येतद् विनाशस्य पृथिव्या द्विजसत्तम॥