Sauti said: What you ask me is narrated in the Puranas. O Brahmana, listen to them. I shall briefly narrated them all.
सौतिरुवाच विषयोऽयं पुराणस्य यन्मां त्वं परिपृच्छसि। शृणु मे वदतः सर्वमेतत्संक्षेपतो द्विजः॥