Savitri asked him in a startled voice: "Who are you, Sir, and why
have you come here"
Yama said: "I have come to take your husband's life away. I am
Yama. His life in this world is now over!"
And he began to draw away the life of Satyavan with the noose.
Satyavan's body became cold.
Savitri was very learned in the Sastras.She did not lose heart.
Savitri kept following Yama, and argued and pleaded with him all the
way in such a gentle and persuasive manner that she won the dreaded God wholly over to her
side.
Yama was charmed by her discourse on the Sastras, about which she
-talked continuously. in this way she extracted one boon after another from Yama that her
father-in-law should get his sight back as well as his kingdom that her father should have
a hundred sons, and so on. At last she asked that she herself should have a hundred sons.
