Pramadvara

The apsara Menaka leaves her newborn daughter on a riverbank and vanishes. The sage Sthulakesha finds the radiant infant, a child who looks like an immortal's, and is moved by compassion to raise her as his own.

Ruru sees Pramadvara in the hermitage and is smitten; their marriage is arranged. But days before the wedding, driven by destiny, Pramadvara steps on a coiled snake and is killed instantly by its venomous bite.

Ruru's beloved Pramadvara lies dead, and his grief-stricken pleas cannot bring her back. A divine messenger appears with a terrible bargain: Pramadvara can live again, but only if Ruru gives her half of his own life.