Mahabharata 1.5.6

1.5.6

imaṃ vaṃśamahaṃ brahmanbhārgavaṃ te mahāmune |
nigadāmi kathāyuktaṃ purāṇāśrayasaṃyutam || 6 ||

"Sauti answered, 'By me hath been acquired all that was formerly studied by the high-souled Brahmanas including Vaisampayana and repeated by them; by me hath been acquired all that had been studied by my father. O descendant of the Bhrigu race, attend then to so much as relateth to the exalted race of Bhrigu, revered by Indra and all the gods, by the tribes of Rishis and Maruts (Winds). O great Muni, I shall first properly recount the story of this family, as told in the Puranas.