The Bhikṣuṇī Maṇimēkhalai

177 - Maṇimēkhalai is Spirited Away
Tārai your elder sister! You the daughter of the Brahman Kauśika of
Champa inhabited by Kārāḷar! You that came into the city in the
company of Mārutavēgan and joined the company of your elder sister
Tārai! You that were known as Vīrai in your previous birth, and are
known as Sutamatī in this life, listen. Your younger sister Lakṣmī,
understanding all that happened in her previous life and yours, will
return to this city seven days from today. Therefore have no fear that
she has been taken away from you.’
In these words the statue spoke to her in the voice of a God.
Sutamatī, her fears increased on hearing this, managed to spend the
night somehow, and, starting at break of day, went through the streets
of the city to the house of Mādhavī and recounted to her all that took
place the previous day. On hearing of what had taken place and of the
disappearance of Maṇimēkhalai, Mādhavī was stricken with sorrow
like a cobra which had lost its crest jewel, while Sutamatī, in her
company, remained incapable of action like a being whose life had
gone out of her, because of the separation of Maṇimēkhalai from her.