एकदैकेन तत्रोक्तं कथाप्रस्तावतः क्वचित् ।इहाभूच्छ्वपचो राजा वर्षाण्यष्टौ द्विजेति मे
In plain words
One day someone there said to me, the remark arising in the course of talk: 'O brāhmaṇa, here there once lived, for eight years, a king who was a śvapaca.'