Even the Danavas (demons), the Gods, the Nisaachars (phantoms and ghosts who walk in the night; the ogres and the hobgoblins), the Kinnars (celestial singers and dancers), and Ahigans (the legendary serpents representing the inhabitants of the subterranean world)—all of them assumed a human form of a king on hearing of the Swayambar, and cheerfully proceeded to Janakpur to attend and witness the magnificent event.