Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 11
Sanskrit:
श्रीभगवानुवाचइत्थमेतत् पुरा राजा भीष्मं धर्मभृतां वरम् ।अजातशत्रु: पप्रच्छ सर्वेषां नोऽनुशृण्वताम् ॥ ११ ॥
ITRANS:
śrī-bhagavān uvācaittham etat purā rājābhīṣmaṁ dharma-bhṛtāṁ varamajāta-śatruḥ papracchasarveṣāṁ no ’nuśṛṇvatām
Translation:
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Uddhava, just as you are now inquiring from Me, similarly, in the past King Yudhiṣṭhira, who considered no one his enemy, inquired from the greatest of the upholders of religious principles, Bhīṣma, while all of us were carefully listening.