Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.4666

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After a while the woman woke up, and saw her husband who had cut her lover into two. She stood up quickly and took the trunk of her lover and placed it on her shoulder and taking the head in one hand, went out and hid them in the pile of ashes. Then she returned and lay down. Viṣṇudatta had followed her stealthily and seen what she had done. He also returned and sat in the midst of his friends. She rose up and took the sword of her husband and killed him with it. Then coming out she cried aloud. "Oh dear! These travellers have killed my husband." The servants woke up and came to the house and saw their master lying dead. They tried to attack Viṣṇudatta and his friends. Viṣṇudatta told them everything that he had seen, and showed them the head and the trunk of her lover, hidden in the ashes. When they saw this they understood everything. They tried the woman. At last she admitted the crime. They expelled her and drove her away. After this the travellers returned to their homes. (Kathāsaritsāgara, Madanamañcukālambaka, Taraṅga 6).