When his wife did not return after having her bath, the nishada who was Somasharma’s wife in his female incarnation, came to the river and found his wife’s clothes lying there. He concluded that his wife had drowned and began to lament her death. Somasharma could not bear these lamentations and did his best to console the husband. He told the nishada to go home and look after the children and to control himself for the sake of the offsprings.

In fact, he decided to tell the nishada the entire story. But when he started to do so, he found that the nishada disappeared. And when he looked for the nishada village, he could not find that either. Everything had vanished.

Vishnu now appeared before Somasharma and told him that he had been deluded by maya. He had not been born into a nishada household at all. Nor had he become a wife and a mother. Unfathomable indeed are the mysteries of maya. One should therefore never wish to understand the nature of maya; it was beyond human comprehension. Somasharma had made the mistake of wishing to comprehend maya and had to pay the price in terms of the misery that he had gone through. The reason why Somasharma had to undergo all this suffering was that in a previous birth, he had once failed to show obeisance to a righteous brahmana.

After Vishnu had vanished, Somasharma went to a tirtha named Kubjamraka and yielded up his life through harsh meditation.