The Bhikṣuṇī Maṇimēkhalai

222 - Kāñcana kills Udayakumāra
that the prince had come there to visit his wife Kāyaśaṇḍikai secretly,
like an angry cobra coming out to attack without spread hood, drew
his sword and cut the prince in two. Having done this, he rushed up to
Kāyaśaṇḍikai to rise up into the air with her when the statuette on the
pillar exclaimed:
‘Vidyādhara, approach not, approach not. She is Maṇimēkhalai in
disguise as Kāyaśaṇḍikai. Listen to what had happened to the latter.
Having got rid of her unquenchable hunger, on rising up in the air
towards her home, not knowing the fact that those that go by the air
avoid crossing over that part of the Vindhyas where is the shrine of
the Goddess Vindhyavāsinī, she floated across over the shrine.
Goddess Durgā, angry that this insult [163] should have been offered
to her, drew her in by the shadow and made a meal of her as has
always been usual. Be not vexed with what you have done to this
prince. It is his past deeds that have resulted in this. Yet you must bear
the consequences of the evil deed although done in ignorance.’
Sad at heart at the turn that events took, Kāñcana flew across the air
homewards towards Kailāsa.