When Ramesh reached home he found people discussing about his forthcoming marriage, his heart sank finding unexpected turns taking place in his life. He tried with all possible methods to convince his father about Ramesh's choice of marriage with Hemamalini.But his father was firm about going ahead with marriage to take place within a month time on an auspecios day which would not come in that year again.
The bride lived in a distant place only accessible by river. Braj Mohan arranged for travel to that place, called Simulghta, so that there were still four days to elapse before the wedding ceremony.On the wedding day Ramesh showed his displeasure of the marriage with the girl refusing to recite the sacred formula correctly. He closed his eyes at the time of "auspicious look" (the privileged moment when bridegroom and bride see each other for the first time), wore a hang-dog expression, and kept his mouth shut during the jesting in the bridal chamber, lay throughout the night with his back turned to the girl, and left the room as early as possible in the morning.
After all the ceremonies are over the party set out , the women(including bride's mother) in one boat, the older men in another, the bridegroom and andyounger men in a third; the musicians who had played at wedding were in fourth boat and beguiled the time by striking up various ditties and random snatches of music.
Suddenly, without warning, the stillness of weather was broken by a hoarse rumble as of thunder. Looking back the travellers saw a column of broken branches and twigs, wisps of grass and straw clouds of dust and sand, raised as it were by some vast broom and sweeping down on them.What happened next will never be known.A whirlwind, following as usual a narrow path of destruction, descended on the boats, up-rooting and overturning every thing that lay in its track ; and in a moment the hapless flotilla was blotted out of existence.
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