Part 4: Yadus become mendicants

Because of that sorrow many Yadus became mendicants under Nemi, and the nine Daśārhas except Vasudeva. Śivā, the Master’s mother, and seven full brothers, and other sons of Hari, became mendicants under the Lord. Rājīmatī, with a desire for emancipation, became a mendicant under the Master and Ekanāsā, Nanda’s daughter, and many other women of the Yadus. Hari took a vow to abstain from marriage and all his daughters became mendicants under the Master. Except Kanakavatī, Rohiṇī, and Devakī, Vasudeva’s wives became mendicants under Nemi.

As Kanakavatī was meditating at home on the duration of existence, her omniscience appeared, her karmas suddenly broken. She, a festival for her made by the gods informed by Nemi, adopted mendicancy herself and went to the Master’s presence. After she had seen Nemi, she went to a forest and, after fasting for thirty days, Kanakavatī died and attained emancipation.