The hero who left his wedding to die
Pābūjī, having promised the Cāraṇ woman Deval that he would always protect her cattle, abandons his own marriage ceremony after circling the sacred fire only part-way when Jindrāv Khīcī raids Deval's cows; he rides out, recovers the herd, and is killed, and his unmarried bride becomes a satī. The hero is defined not by completing the central human bond but by honouring a protective vow to the point of death at the moment of his own marriage.