Verse 1

¹Yati, Yayati, Samyati, Ayati, Viyati and Krti: these six belonged to Nahusa, as the six senses belong to one who has a body. ²Yati did not want the kingdom his father gave him, knowing what it comes to in the end: a man who has gone into it does not come to know himself. ³The father was thrown down from his place by the twice-born for laying hands on Indra's wife, and made into a python; and so Yayati became king. ⁴The elder brother set his four younger brothers over the four quarters, and, having taken wives of Kavya and of Vrsaparvan, he guarded the earth. ⁵The revered Kavya was a brahmin sage, and Nahusa's son a kshatriya in name only. How did a marriage between a kshatriya and a brahmin come about, going against the grain?