Standing on the other side of the iron bars of the prison, when Snigdha was speaking to the Tantrik in that manner about asking for three boons—right at that moment, the wicked stepmother Sushila, confined inside the iron cage in the far corner of that cell, pricked up her two ears and began to listen to their words with immense attention! Sushila began to think to herself, "Oh! This Snigdha girl turns out to be playing a thoroughly formidable move, oh father! She is subduing the Tantrik with expensive clothes and asking for three boons from her? Let me see, let me see, what boons she speaks of from her own mouth, I must prick up my ears and listen very carefully!" Not only Sushila, but Snigdha's crooked and dirty friends, confined in the other cell adjacent to Sushila, also pressed their ears against the prison walls and began to listen with eager curiosity to find out what boon Snigdha had come to ask for today.
Placing her hand over her chest and looking into the eyes of the Tantrik, Snigdha then revealed her first desire in a thoroughly grave and greedy voice. She said, "Listen, Boudi! The very first and foremost desire of my life is—I want to possess such a massive miraculous and terrifying power within this Junagarh empire, that just like you yourself, standing before any person of this kingdom, I can read every single hidden word and conspiracy inside their mind exactly to the letter in a single moment! I want the massive capability of reading everyone's mind in the palm of my hands, Boudi! You grant me this boon before everything else!"
The moment she heard about asking for the boon of 'the miraculous power of mind-reading' from Snigdha's mouth—the Tantrik violently shook her head from side to side and screamed out in an extremely harsh and fierce voice! Making her two eyes hot toward Snigdha, she said, "No! O you devilish girl Snigdha, you are speaking of a thoroughly impossible boon from your own mouth, re! I will never be able to fulfill such a dangerous and dirty desire of yours through my miraculous magical strength, oh father! At most, I can fulfill some small, ordinary desire of your life through my magic, but going against the laws of nature and the distant future, showing a clean pair of heels to the decree of God Himself, I will never be able to make you the possessor of such a massive miraculous power! And you uttered the talk of mind-reading power so thoroughly easily from your own mouth? Do you not know that—to acquire this miraculous power myself, how much massive hard work I have done in my life, how much I have suffered, and only after sitting in the middle of the forest's cremation ground day after day without eating or drinking, performing rigorous penance and meditation with single-minded devotion, did I finally attain this miraculous power in my life by the grace of God! Therefore, being a saint myself, I will never let you misuse and neglect such sacred magical power, re, wicked girl! There is a massive cosmic balance to this mind-reading power, the intense mental pressure of which an ordinary human of this earth or a girl with a dirty mind like yours can never tolerate! You will go mad in a single minute! Leave this boon aside and speak of something else ordinary, I am listening!"
The moment Snigdha heard such a direct rejection of her first desire from the Tantrik's mouth—the fear inside her mind transformed into a massive surge of rage and wrath in a single moment! Becoming absolutely blind with anger and forgetting her royal dignity, she stamped her feet violently on the prison floor, stood her ground, and screamed out in an extremely harsh and foul voice, saying, "What! O you wretched and fake magic-Tantrik girl! How do you muster such huge audacity that you stand right to my face and flatly refuse to fulfill my first desire in that manner, huh? If you do not fulfill this desire of mine today through your magic—I will thrust my hand through these iron bars, firmly grab the cluster of long hair on that bald head of yours in a single clutch, and give it such a violent shaking and rattling—that all the fake intellect of that head of yours will mingle with the dust in one minute! O you devilish Tantrik, what kind of a massive treasury of jewels, gold, diamonds, and priceless pearls are you sitting upon, let me hear—for which you are doing such affectation over fulfilling a mere desire? I have only asked you for a simple power of mind-reading, yet you are putting on an act as if I have forcefully asked for that golden husband of yours from your chest for myself! What is all this drama for, huh?"
The moment she heard that insulting and ugly phrase regarding her highly cherished and delicate husband—'asked for that husband'—from Snigdha's mouth, the anger inside the Tantrik's mind reached the sky in a single moment! The Tantrik's fair face turned thoroughly crimson, looking like a ball of fire in absolute rage, and sparks of ferocious wrath seemed to fly out from her two eyes! Gnashing her teeth continuously, she kept staring at Snigdha with extremely terrifying eyes.
On the other side, standing in the iron cage at the far end of the corridor, when the wicked stepmother Sushila witnessed such an intense insult toward the Tantrik from Snigdha's mouth and saw the sight of the Tantrik turning crimson with rage—Sushila, standing inside her cage, began to clap her hands very loudly out of sheer joy! Laughing thoroughly fiendishly and clapping her hands, Sushila tried to instigate Snigdha even further.
Seeing this ill-timed act of Sushila standing inside the cage and clapping loudly, the Tantrik snapped her crimson, angry eyes toward Sushila's cage with a sudden jerk. Shaking her hand violently, she scolded Sushila in an extremely fierce and harsh voice, saying, "What! O you devilish old woman Sushila Boudi! Why are you clapping your hands so violently while standing inside your iron cage early this morning, let me hear, huh? Are you clapping now to speak in my favor—or are you clapping to express joy on behalf of that arrogant and characterless girl Snigdha after hearing her ugly words, tell me clearly! Look here, oh Sushila Boudi, if you have given that clap in favor of the dirty words of that venomous snake Snigdha—then I will use my magic to turn you into a flat-out dirty toad or a wretched insect right inside this cage and keep you like that forever!"
The moment she heard such a terrifying threat of being turned into a dirty toad from the Tantrik's mouth—all the joy inside Sushila's mind vanished in a single second, and she became thoroughly cowed down out of fear! Promptly stopping her clapping and making her face look extremely pitiful, she said while trembling, "Oima! No, no, re, my golden Tantrik child, you are understanding it very wrongly, re! I did not clap even in the slightest for the dirty words of that devilish Snigdha, oh father! The massive and beautiful scolding that you gave from your own mouth against her ugly words—I was clapping out of great love merely to praise your heroic words, re, child! Do not understand it wrongly!"