She continued to talk for twelve long years. She neither ate nor slept, but went on explaining dharma.

At the end of twelve years, the famine was over. The rishis also-returned from the Hima layas. They brought fruit and rice to eat.

God Siva was pleased with Arundhati's tapas.

So He took his real form and said to the rishis, "Arundhati's tapas is greater than yours on the Himalayas!" God Siva made the place very holy where Arundhati lived.

You know, rishi Vasishtha sits in the sky as a star. Arundhati also sits there by his side.

Arundhati is the patron deity of marriage.

Newly-married girls see the star Arundhati, They want to love their husbands, and live like her.