Days, too, glided by. Only four days of life were left to Sathyvantha! Savithri spent three days in religious rites of the most rigorous kind. She fasted for three days. She was determined not to drink even a drop of water. She worshipped Goddess Savithri, day and night. She begged the Goddess who had blessed her father, to protect her husband.

She would not listen to anybody. Dyumathsena said, "My daughter Savithri, Why have you undertaken such rigorous rites? It is not difficult for you to fast for three days?"