Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.541

c7.541

All the other wives of Vīrabhuja became jealous of Guṇavarā. They told the King that Guṇavarā was in love with a servant of the palace. The King did not believe it. But he thought he would test her. The King called the servant in question and accusing him of having committed the murder of a brahmin sent him away from the state on a pilgrimage. Sorrow-stricken the servant set out for the pilgrimage. The King then approached Guṇavarā and said that a sannyāsin had declared that he, the King, would lose his crown if one of his wives was not put in a cell underground. Guṇavarā who adored her husband readily agreed to live underground.