 As Kichaka advanced forward, however, the person who he thought to be Malini revealed himself as Bhima and a fight occurs in which he brutally kill Kichaka with his bare hands, leaving the corpse almost unrecognisable.Malini then alarmed the keepers to behold lifeless Kichaka, slain by her husband's Gandharva.Kichaka's relatives addressed the King, 'Since it was for her sake that Kichaka lost his life, let her be cremated alongside him'.