“When everything was ready, God upset the whole plan!” Everywhere people abused Kaikey¶. “What sense could there be in this wicked woman having set fire to a house that had been newly thatched! She seeks to perceive after tearing out her eyes with her own hands, and wishes to taste poison throwing away nectar. This crooked hard-hearted and evil-minded wretch has appeared as fire to burn the cluster of bamboos in the shape of Raghu’s race. Sitting on a twig she has hewn the tree itself; in the midst of joy she has raised a structure of sorrow. Ýr¶ RŒma had always been dear to her as life: What has led her to resort to such perversity? Seers have truly said that a woman’s mind is altogether incomprehensible, unfathomable and shrouded in mystery. Sooner may a man catch his own reflection than know the ways of a woman. (1—4)