Shatadhanu and Shaivya

Many years ago there used to be a king known as Shastdhanu. His wife Shaivya was a religious woman. Together, they used to pray to Vishnu, on the banks of the river Byhagirathi. They were not interested in other things. One day a fraudulent teacher came to them. Shatadhanu spoke to this person, but Shaivya did not. Some years later. Shatadhanu died and shaivya also died with him on the funeral pyre.

Because he had spoken to the false teacher, Shatadhanu was born as a dog in his next life. And Shaivya was born as a jatismara daughter to the king of Kashi. When the king of Kashi wished to get his daughter married off, Shaivya refused. She had learnt that her husband had been born as a dog and was living in the city of Vidisha. So she went there and met the dog. She gave it good food to eat. The dog merely wagged its tail. At this, shaivya felt ashamed and tried to remind the god of its earlier life.