In Padmalaya, the land of lotus and lakes, it is said there lived a young girl named Abha so called for the lovely lustre of her hair which ran like a river down her back and touched her ankles. So beautiful was Abha that men came from the far off places of India just to gaze on her.
Abha was given many gifts by her admirers but the one she treasured most was a magic noopur or anklet which, when she removed all her clothes and let her hair become her saree, she wore only the noopur as her solitary accessorie...and truly she needed no other.
Abha believed the noopur was magic and that it would protect her from all harm. And so when she wore it to swim in the fast current of the river one day she had no fear so long as she had her noopur. But that day the noopur was torn off her ankle by the rushing torrent, and Abha succumbed to the raging waters and drowned.
They laid out her naked body on the shore and cried for her and the noopur floated away on the glistening waves.
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