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## Padma Purana
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With folded hands and bowed heads, the two princes, along with all the kings and their consorts, approached their mothers and paid their respects. ||57||
The mothers showered them with thousands of blessings and auspicious gifts. The princes embraced their mothers, experiencing an immeasurable joy. ||58||
They embraced them again and again, never satiated, and kissed their foreheads, their trembling hands touching them. Their eyes overflowed with tears of joy. ||59||
They sat down, inquired about each other's well-being, and attained supreme fortitude. ||60||
Gautama Swami said, "O Shrenik! Their thousands of desires, multiplied countless times in the past, have now borne fruit, exceeding their expectations, due to the power of their merit." ||61||
These noble mothers, devoted to the virtuous, with pure minds, surrounded by hundreds of daughters-in-law, and possessing the wealth of Lakshmi, attained unparalleled glory and respect through the influence of their valiant sons and their own accumulated merit. ||62-63||
They ruled the earth, extending from the salt sea to the horizon, unopposed, granting commands as they pleased, adorned with a single umbrella. ||64||
Gautama Swami said, "Whoever, with a pure mind, hears or reads this account of the auspicious reunion, will attain desired wealth, a long life, and great merit." ||65||
Even a single rule followed by a person of good intellect leads to progress and shines brightly like the sun. Therefore, O noble ones, follow this rule. ||66||
Thus ends the Vyasiṣṭha Parva, the eighty-second chapter of the Padma Purana, narrated by the venerable Raviṣena Acharya, known as the Ārṣa. ||82||