Savitri asked him in a startled voice: "Who are you, Sir, and why have you come here"

Yama said: "I have come to take your husband's life away. I am Yama. His life in this world is now over!"

And he began to draw away the life of Satyavan with the noose. Satyavan's body became cold.

Savitri was very learned in the Sastras.She did not lose heart.

Savitri kept following Yama, and argued and pleaded with him all the way in such a gentle and persuasive manner that she won the dreaded God wholly over to her side.