Vaishampayana said : O best of kings, when Sharmishtha thus promised to be the maid-servant of Devayani, she then thus spoke to her father.
वैशम्पायन उवाच प्रतिश्रुते दासभावे दुहित्रा वृषपर्वणः। देवयानी नृपश्रेष्ठ पितरं वाक्यमब्रवीत्॥