She succeeded in getting the bullocks to turn a little and then the plow started to swing in an arc towards the house so she grabbed the end as it went by and with every bit of strength she had held it just high enough so it missed hitting any part of the house. Then she dropped to her knees in exhaustion. Next her brother-in-law came running towards her in the wake of the two buffalo and yelling to her, “I’m going to tell your husband that you touched the oxen and the plow! He’ll throw you out!!” And that’s what the husband did. He came back in a rage and told her to leave. The basis of this was that women are not supposed to touch the buffaloes or the plow because it "pollutes", or “contaminates” them.

So she was thrown out of the house with her few belongings. She went to her sister’s house but the sister said if she took care of her in that her own husband would throw both of them out of her house. So, the woman felt like all she could do was kill herself (seriously). It was the only choiceshe could see, but her sister told her that she had been on the bus that day and seen a tall white man traveling with a Nepali woman from Kathmandu and they were going to a village nearby. The sister told the woman to go and ask the white man and the Nepali woman from Kathmandu what to do. And that it what she did.