Note 3 — The Nikini Story1

Then the [pretended] Kapurāla, whom the God Sivalinga was [supposed to be] goading3 to it, became possessed. When he was saying sooth, the wife of the man who went to seek Nikini and the false husband who had joined her, came with their arms interlaced, and saying to the deity that a long time had elapsed since her husband had gone in search of Nikini, they asked, “Has anything happened to him now?”