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Discuss the significance of ujjain fair in Hayavadana

Discuss the significance of ujjain fair in Hayavadana

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They are planning a trip together to the Ujjain fair but when Devadatta tells Padmini that he wishes he could spend more alone time with her (secretly jealous of Kapila, whom he knows has feelings for his wife), she offers to cancel the trip. When Kapila arrives, though, she changes her mind and decides to take the trip as planned. As the trip progresses, Padmini pays Kapila many compliments. Devadatta sulks and becomes more and more envious. They pass the temple of Kali, and Devadatta remembers his pledge to cut off his head if he were to be allowed to marry Padmini. Full of grief over his disintegrating marriage, he strikes off his head. When Kapila goes to look for Devadatta, he finds his decapitated body and in his grief beheads himself as well. The men are gone for so long that Padmini becomes worried. She sets off to look for them and when she finds their bodies, she tries to kill herself. The goddess Kali appears to her and tells her that if she agrees to put the men's heads back on their bodies herself then they will be brought back to life. Padmini is so excited by this that she puts the wrong heads on the wrong bodies by mistake; the men come back to life but Devadatta's head is on Kapila's body, and vice versa.