O Brahmana, persons learned in the precepts of virtue have said that to predecease their husbands in an act of the highest merit for women who have borne children.
व्युष्टिरेषा परा स्त्रीणां पूर्वं भर्तुः परां गतिम्। गन्तुं ब्रह्मन् सपुत्राणामिति धर्मविदो दिदुः॥