Read the passage and answer the question:
This is an age-old tale. A mother and her daughter Satto, lived in a village. During that time, the forests were full of fruits and flowers. The women and girls of the village used to go and pluck these fruits and flowers. All of them used to pluck the sweet flowers of the mahua (Bassia Latifolia) tree, stored them at home and consumed them later.
One day, all of them plucked the sweet flowers and kept them in their rooms without drying them. Satto's mother was not at home. Satto dried the sweet flowers. As the flowers dried, they shrank. Later on when Satto's mother came home, she found very little flowers and thought that either Satto had eaten the flowers or she had given them to the village girls. In her blind rage, she beat her daughter to death. The women and girls of the village told her that she killed her daughter for such a trivial issue. They asked her to soak the flowers in water. When she soaked the mahuas, they swelled up and the entire room was filled with the flowers. Satto's mother was full of remorse. She regretted the fact that she killed her daughter without thinking. She died because of grief.
She was reborn as the pandak bird. The pandak bird still sings this song-
'Daughter Satto, the mahuas were in proper quantity...'
What happened when Satto's mother soaked the flowers in water?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → The entire room was filled with flowers as they soaked up
The village women told the mother to soak the flowers in water. "When she soaked the mahuas, they swelled up and the entire room was filled with the flowers." The flowers had only shrunk on drying; water brought them back to their full size, proving that none had been eaten.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: Satto came back to life — Incorrect. Wrong link: Satto did not come back; it is the mother who is later reborn as a bird.
Option 3: The flowers dissolved in water — Incorrect. Contradicted: the flowers did not dissolve; they swelled up.
Option 4: The entire room was full of water — Incorrect. Contradicted: the room was filled with flowers, not water.