Verse 11

⁶One day the daughter of the lord of the Danavas, a girl named Sarmistha, a spirited woman, with a thousand friends and with the teacher's daughter as well, ⁷walked with Devayani in the garden outside the city, thick with trees in flower, on the sand beside a lotus pool where the bees were singing sweetly. ⁸Coming to the water, those lotus-eyed girls left their fine clothes on the bank and played there, splashing one another. ⁹Seeing the mountain-dweller going by on his bull with the goddess, the women came out of the water all at once and put their clothes on, ashamed. ¹⁰Sarmistha, not knowing whose it was, put on the dress of the teacher's daughter. Devayani took it for her own, and said this in anger:

¹¹Look now at this serving woman's doing, and how out of place it is. She has put on what is ours to wear, as a bitch takes the offering at a sacrifice.