If the transgressors subsequently repented, they were, after the lapse of six months, to be sent to Kasi (Benares), bathe in the Ganges, and return to their home. There they were to openly express their regret for their past conduct, fast the whole day, feed Brahmans, and present them with three hundred cows, and hear the Mahabharatha during the night. On the following day, they were again to fast, present two hundred cows to Brahmans and feast them, and hear the Ramayana during the night. On the third day, they were once more to fast, present a hundred cows, and hear the Bhagavatam during the night. On the fourth day, they were again to feast Brahmans, and worship Nagaresvaraswami of Penugonda, and thus purge themselves from the sin of contravening the rule of menarikam. But they were not bound to follow the rule, if the paternal aunt's son was totally blind, deaf, insane, stricken with disease, a eunuch, thief, idiot, leper, dwarf, or immoral, or if an old man or younger than the girl. The children were further advised to respect, at the time of their marriage, the families whose heads went as envoys to the king at Rajamundry, and the boys who made false promises to the king, and induced him to withdraw to his capital. The heads of the families then made various gifts to Brahmans, and asked Vasavambika to enter the pit. In her true form of Paramesvari, she blessed those gotras which had resolved to follow her, and announced that those who had fled would be nameless and without caste. She then declared that, immediately Vishnu Vardhana entered Penugonda, his head would fall severed from his neck. Finally, she invoked Brahma not to create thenceforth beautiful girls in the caste in which she was born, and prayed that in future they should be short of stature, with gaping mouth, disproportionate legs, broad ears, crooked hands, red hair, sunken eyes, dilated eye-balls, insane looks, broad noses and wide nostrils, hairy body, black skin, and protruding teeth. She then jumped into her pit, and immediately afterwards the heads of the 102 gotras, with their wives, fell into their respective pits, and were reduced to ashes. On the morrow, Vishnu Vardhana started on his journey from Rajamundry to Penugonda. Brahmans portended evil, and a voice from heaven said that he would lose his life. An evil spirit obstructed him, and it rained blood. Lightning struck men, and numerous other signs of impending evil occurred. Arrived at Penugonda, Vishnu Vardhana was informed that the castemen and Vasavambika had been burnt in the fire-pits. Stunned by the news, he fell from his elephant, and his head was severed from his body, and broke into a thousand pieces. His broken head and body were carried by his followers to Rajamundry, and cremated by his son Raja Raja Narendra. Then the latter pacified the citizens of Penugonda, and appointed Virupaksha, the son of Kusuma Sreshti, Pedda Setti of the towns. The 102 families performed funeral