Vishnupurana 2.13.1

2.13.1

maitreya uvāca
bhagavansamyagākhyātaṃ yatpṛṣṭosi mayā kila /
bhūsamudrādisaritāṃ saṃsthānaṃ grahasaṃ sthitiḥ //

MAITREYA.--Reverend sir, all that I asked of you has been thoroughly explained; namely, the situation of the earth, oceans, mountains, rivers, and planetary bodies; the system of the three worlds, of which Vishńu is the stay. The great end of life has also been expounded by you, and the preeminence of holy knowledge. It now remains that you fulfil the promise you made some time since, of relating to me the story of king Bharata, and how it happened that a monarch like him, residing constantly at the sacred place Śálagráma, and engaged in devotion, with his mind ever applied to Vásudeva, should have failed, through time sanctity of the shrine, and the efficacy of his abstractions, to obtain final emancipation; how it was that he was born again as a Brahman; and what was done by the magnanimous Bharata in that capacity: all this it is fit that you inform me.