Neminatha, betrothed to Rajimati of Girnar, was in the wedding procession when he heard crying from an enclosure and asked what it was. Animals had been penned for the marriage feast. He ordered them freed, turned the chariot around, went to Girnar, and renounced. Rajimati, left at the pavilion, is the story's real subject in the Gujarati and Rajasthani devotional tradition, which is largely composed from her point of view and includes long, sharp reproaches addressed to him. She did not accept the humiliation or another match: she renounced as well, became a nun, and — in the standard accounts — attained liberation before he did. There is a famous subsidiary episode in which Neminatha's brother Rathanemi, who had also renounced, sees her sheltering from rain with her clothes off and propositions her, and she rebukes him back into his vows; the exchange is preserved in the Uttaradhyayana Sutra and is one of the strongest passages in the Jain canon on the subject.