Verse 42

⁴²Seeing his father pleased, the great-grandfather of the worlds, the sage among the gods asked him the very thing you are asking me. ⁴³To him the maker of beings, well pleased, spoke this ancient telling, the Bhagavata with its ten marks, which the Bhagavan had spoken to him; he told it to his son. ⁴⁴Narada told it, king, on the bank of the Sarasvati, to the sage Vyasa of measureless splendour, who was meditating there on the highest Brahman. ⁴⁵And what you asked me, how this came to be from the Person of the vast form, that I shall tell you, and your other questions too, all of them.