It occurred in 1641. The Raja again mustered support from Purushottama Deva Gajapati of Khorda, and with his help came back and rebuilt Porahat. Paudi Devi was duly reinstated. There is stories a to how the clue to the hiding place of Ma paudi used to be written in a bamboo stick and was carried along for future identification.Now we come to the story as to how Ma Paudi, the presiding deity of Singhbhum as well as the family deity of the rulers of Singhbhum, came to have the taboo that radically restricted the darshan of the deity, as indicated earlier.

It came about this way. Ma Paudi was being worshipped with great veneration; but in the latter half of the 17th and the early part of the 18th centuries, the Maharajas of Porahat began to patronize a form of Buddhism which was popularly known in that part of the country as Bakali Dharma, and this led to a decline in the prestige as well as puja of Ma Paudi.The public worship was neglected and even the image was thrown away. It is devoutly believed that, owing to this neglect of Ma Paudi, the power and fame of the Maharaja of Singhbhum, with Porahat as the capital, dwindled.