Raja Bisal had seven daughters. One day he asked them to tell him who provided for their well being. All but one (Padmavati) said our father the King is our sole provider. Padmavati however said it was not he but her own fate and God who provided for her. This made the king very angry. He called for the Brahmin and ordered him to go out of the gates of the village and find the first being to get Padmavati married. When the priest came out in search of the groom for the princess, he could not see anyone except a peacock with a broken leg. He felt sad for the princess as he has seen her grow; and fearing for his own Karma he returned and told the king that he did not find anyone. The king sent him again the next day and again he found the peacock with a broken leg there. He returned and said the same thing to the king as the previous day. The king was now in a rage and threatened the Brahmin that if he did not find anyone this time his head would be chopped off. Therefore when the Brahmin found the same broken-leg peacock for the third time he resigned to the idea that this is probably the fate of the princess. He offered a coconut to the peacock and told him to come to the palace on a particular date when he would be married to the princess Padmavati. Meanwhile the king also arranged the weddings of his other daughters. While all others received chariots full of gifts, Padmavati went to the jungle on a cheap cart with the broken-leg peacock. While they were in the jungle the peacock kept flying away from Padmavati and she kept calling out to him to have his meal as she was now a dutiful wife and could not think of eating without feeding her husband first. However, the peacock went and perched himself on a tall tree. A storm brewed in the night, breaking the branch with the peacock who fell to his death.

Padmavati called out to the Gods wailing about why she suffered such a destiny when she had been faithfully devoted to the gods. The gods' Shiva and Parvati heard her plea and came down to ask her why she was in distress. After listening to her they decided to transform the peacock into a man. Padmavati asked them not to do that since her father may think she had run off with another man. Therefore they transformed the peacock into a prince with the crest of the peacock (Raja Mordhaj) and gave him a kingdom. They also transported them to a new kingdom where they lived happily.

When Padmavati’s father heard of a new kingdom in his neighborhood, he decided to befriend his neighbors. There he recognized his daughter and she told him how her fate had provided for her always. He accepted her argument and was ashamed.