Who is this fellow-disciple you talk of- is it the Mahasiddha Hadipa? In Odia versions, the songs are so popular that wandering ascetics roam around singing these and even the people have the lines on their lips. Maunamati, or as it is shortened, Mauna Dei convinces her songs in a long discourse on the impermanence of life and the prophecy of Gobindachandra’s death. She wants him to attain meaning in life and hence asks him to approach the great Hadipa, who first tests, then accepts Gobinda as a disciple, having told him of the hardships of his way of life. All in all, it is a story of realising the essence of life and about abandoning fruitless materialistic views. Maunamati is not presented in a negative manner at all, rather she is a mother who wants her som to be remembered and for his short life to be meaningful.