Mandhata came out of this palace and went into another. To his great surprise, the second daughter said exactly the same thing. In fact, this is what all the daughters said. For what had happened was that Soubhari had created fifty different forms of himself with the powers of his tapasya. Mandhata had never witnessed anything like this. He fell down at Soubhari’s feet and begged for forgiveness.

Soubhari had a hundred and fifty sons to whom he got quite attached. But after some time he realised the dangers of such attachment. It had made him deviate from his path of tapasya. He realised the illusions he had been living with ever since he had seen the king of the fishes. He devoted the rest of his life of Vishnu.