She repeatedly pleaded and cried before Shiva. Kind Ashutosh (who is easily pleased) allowed her to visit the occasion. Sati reaches her father's house to find out what his husbands fears to be true. Her mother welcomed her with a sigh for her ill fate; her rich sisters taunted her of her poverty. When even her father gave her a cold shoulder she could not bear any more and burst out in anger pointing out all the

services her husband had offered to the world. But her father instead of pacifying her started to insult Shiva. Dishearten Sati preferred to left the body that heard the insults of her husband and died on the spot. 

A broken hearted Nandi who accompanied Sati this time fled to Shiva to give the message of this disaster. Peace loving Shiva lost his temper for this unbearable loss. He created a monster out of his hair with the sole purpose of destroying Dakshya's Yagna (sacrifice). The ceremony came to a disastrous end and Dakshya was killed.

When all of the deities present there prayed for his life Shiva returned his life but punished him by placing a head of goat above his body. Dakshya pleaded before him and repented for his misdeed. This decreased Shiva's anger a bit, but his grief remained. Carrying the lifeless body of Sati in his shoulder Shiva started his dance of death, the Tandava. World appeared to have ended before his feet. Alarmed Lord of creation, Vishnu, sent his disc, the Sudarshan Chakra that started mutilating Sati's body into 51 pieces and lessening the weight from Nataraja's shoulder. The pieces thus thrown away gave rise to "Ekanna Pithas" or 51 pilgrimages for worshippers of the Mother Goddess or Shakti.