One night, as yakshmadhanu lay sleeping, his favourite wife, Pivari, heard her husband sigh and moan. When Pivari taxed him with the reason, the king told her that he would tell her the reason only if she would let him hand over the kingdom to the eldest prince, give up the royal style of life, and accompany him to Mathura. They did so, and on reaching Mathura, devotedly worshipped the gods and observed religious rites.

After some days had passed, Pivari asked Yakshmadhanu why he had sighed and moaned in his sleep. On her own part, she told her husband her story. In her earlier life, she had been crossing the Yamuna and had fallen into the river and died. So holy was the Yamuna that she was reborn as the princess of Kashi and married Yakshmadhanu. The king told his wife that he had sighed and moaned because he had remembered Mathura from an earlier life and had wished to go there. The couple stayed on in Mathura and eventually died there. They immediately went to heaven.