The Bhikṣuṇī Maṇimēkhalai

176 - Maṇimēkhalai is Spirited Away
identity would be to her manifest; on the day that she returns to Puhār,
there would be many strange appearances in the city.
Having said this, she asked Sutamatī to inform Mādhavī of the
appearance of the goddess and of what took place in respect of her
daughter, pointing out to her that she was on the way to enter the
right path. The goddess then told Sutamatī that Mādhavī had already
knowledge of who the goddess was.
‘When Kōvalaṉ told Mādhavī to name their daughter after the patron
deity of the family, I appeared before Mādhavī in a dream and told
her: “You have become the mother of a child who, devoting herself to
a life of penance, would destroy the influence of the God of Passion
so completely that he would forever remain helpless not knowing
what to do.” She asked Sutamatī to remind Mādhavī of this, which she
told her in a dream though in a manner of one talking to her in
physical presence.’
Sutamatī woken up and in distress because of her separation from
Maṇimēkhalai, was in great fear of remaining where she was, as she
could hear the noise of various fearsome transactions at dead of night
in the burning-ghat of the city. She therefore went across the postern
in the enclosing wall, and entered the adjoining Cakravāḷakoṭṭam.
Entering the great Dharmaśāla [131] there, she retired to a corner in
the building, where to her great fear, a statue, on a pillar in front of
her, began to address her in the following terms:–
‘Oh, the rare daughter of Ravivarmā, the wife of Durjaya, of immense
cavalry, you that met your death by an elephant when you had lost
control of yourself, so as to bring about in consequence the death of