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Mahabharata · Chapter 1.59

1.59.1

bhṛguvaṃśātprabhṛtyeva tvayā me kīrtitaṃ mahat /
ākhyānamakhilaṃ tāta saute prīto'smitena te //

1.59.2

prakṣyāmi caiva bhūyastvāṃ yathāvatsūtanandana /
yāḥ kathā vyāsasampannāstāśca bhūyo vicakṣva me //

1.59.3

tasminparamaduṣpāre sarpasatre mahātmanām /
karmāntareṣu yajñasya sadasyānāṃ tathā'dhvare //

1.59.4

yā babhūvuḥ kathāścitrā yeṣvartheṣu yathātatham /
tvatta icchāmahe śrotuṃ saute tvaṃ vai pracakṣva naḥ //
sautiruvāca /

1.59.5

karmāntareṣvakathayandvijā vedāśrayāḥ kathāḥ /
vyāsastvakathayaccitramākhyānaṃ bhārataṃ mahat //
śaunaka uvāca /

1.59.6

mahābhāratamākhyānaṃ pāṇḍavānāṃ yaśaskaram /
janamejayena pṛṣṭaḥ sankṛṣṇadvaipāyanastadā //

1.59.7

śrāvayāmāsa vidhivattadā karmāntare tu saḥ /
tāmahaṃ vidhivatpuṇyāṃ śrotumicchāmi vai kathām //

1.59.8

manaḥsāgarasambhūtāṃ maharṣerbhāvitātmanaḥ /
kathayasva satāṃ śreṣṭha sarvaratnamayīmimām //
sautiruvāca /

1.59.9

hanta te kathayiṣyāmi mahadākhyānamuttamam /
kṛṣṇadvaipāyanamataṃ mahābhāratamāditaḥ //

1.59.10

śṛṇu sarvamaśeṣeṇa kathyamānaṃ mayā dvija /
śaṃsituṃ tanmahānharṣo mamāpīha pravartate //

Original text: Mahābhārata (southern recension) · Edition: Śrīman Mahābhāratam, ed. T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1906–1910; e-text by SARIT (Shrinivasa Varakhedi and others) · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0