There is a village Ambejogai in Marathawada, Maharashtra. Sri Swami being on constant travel reached Ambejogai and started staying on a nearby hill. A peasant girl would always take her animals to the hill to graze. Sri Swami came to know her. He would play with her. The girl’s father, being very greedy to earn money, forced her to wear a boy’s dress and then sold her as a boy to a rich man, who adopted her as his son.

Later on, the rich man selected a girl to marry his adopted son. He wanted to celebrate the marriage ceremony with great pomp. On the wedding day women from the girl’s side came to their house to apply Mehandi ^[1] to the boy as per the prevailing custom. However, they started suspecting that the concerned bridegroom was not a boy but instead a girl. This created a big confusion in the rich man’s house.

When the rich man came to know this truth, he became extremely unhappy and he complained to the king stating that a peasant had cheated him by giving a girl instead of a boy. The king gave his orders to kill the girl-adopted boy. Soldiers caught hold of her and took her to the hill. The girl was crying and writhing in pain. In that state of severe agony she prayed to Sri Swami Samarth with full devotion and earnestness. Sri Swami heard her earnest prayers and came running for her rescue. He became very angry on those soldiers and ordered them to call the king and the rich man. When the king and the rich man arrived there, Sri Swami spoke to them “Look there! Is that a girl or a boy? ”. Everyone looked and to their great surprise saw a boy standing in place of the girl. Then Sri Swami spoke “Now arrange for his marriage”. So saying Sri Swami suddenly vanished from sight.

Everyone present were highly astonished to see this miracle. They started acclaiming Sri Swami Samarth with continuous shouts of victory and returned home.