Narada got startled and disgusted. "What! Must you throw such a nasty curse upon me although I have caused no harm to you? Very well, I say that you're unworthy of entering heaven. You'll always remain confined to the earth!" uttered Narada in the way of casting a curse on Parvat.
Parvat left King Sanjay's palace in a huff. A fortnight later the king asked his ministers to find out a suitable prince for marrying Princess Madayanti. The ministers informed him that several princes were eager to marry her. The problem was, not to find one but to reject so many!
But when the princess heard about the king looking for a match for her, she told one of her maids that she would marry none else than Narada.
The word reached the king who was taken aback. "How could the princess take such a decision? Narada is not only a wandering mendicant, but lately he had come to resemble a monkey in his face because of some strange malady. How can I let my beautiful daughter marry him?"
At the king's behest, the friends of Madayanti tried to persuade her to change her mind, "So many handsome and worthy princes are eager to marry you. Why don't you choose the best one of them? Your marriage with Narada will shock us all. Also, it'll make you a laughingstock of the people," they said.
"If I am not allowed to marry Narada, I shall be shocked to death. So far as my becoming a laughingstock is concerned, I don't care!" she said.
"But why should you reject the princes and marry a wandering mendicant who has grown ugly?" the maids argued.
"In which way are the princes better than Narada? Aren't they slaves of their wealth and power? They while away their time in those idle merriments for which I have no attraction. Narada is a sage. He is a genius in music. True, he has grown ugly. But I had begun to love him before he came under this spell, and my love remainsundiminished," stated the princess.
The king did not want to go against his daughter's firm wish. The princess was, therefore, duly married to Narada.
Narada continued to live in his father-in-law's palace. Although he felt aggrieved on account of his appearance, the princess did not mind it. Sage Parvat soon repented his conduct towards Narada. He came back to King Sanjay's palace after some months and sat in meditation and nullified his own curse.
