To uphold the truth of his values and that of his daughter, it is said that he ordered her to lie down on a pyre, chanted a hymn to the Sun God, thereby ending her life, instantaneously, and dug a pit in the village pond, and told the same kids to close the pit with mud. The kids, thinking it all to be a game, complied on finding that the sand/stones they were piling on the father, was turning into candy.