The wife of a king named Vimarshana. They are mentioned in the Shivapurana in the context of the importance of chaturdashi. Vimarshana was the king of Kirata and used to make the lives of his subjects miserable. His wife once pleaded with him to stop his evil acts. Vimarshana told her not to worry and revealed that he had been a dog in his previous birth. Once, while roaming around hungry, the dog had reached a Shiva temple in Pampapura. It was chaturdashi day and several pilgrims had flocked to the temple. The dog stood watching the idol. Suddenly a voice exhorted the crowd to kill the dog. It panicked and ran around the temple 3 times. But in the end, the crowd killed it. However, since the dog had run three times around the Shiva temple, it earned good karma andwas reborn as a king.

The king said that he was full of devotion for Shiva, but some nature from his previous lives made him commit the evil acts. Kumudwati then had a desire to know about her own previous lives. The king said that she had been a female dove in her previous birth. She once took a piece of meat and flew to a temple of Parvati. Another dove saw her and attacked her. She flew around the temple three times but was finally caught and killed. Since she had circled the temple, she was reborn as a queen.

The king also told her what her next births would be  – the king Shrinjaya’s daughter, then the daughter of the king of Magadha, then the daughter of Dasharna, then Yayati’s daughter, then as Vasumati, the daughter of the king of Vidarbha after which she would attain salvation. Vimarshana said that he would be her husband in those lives too as the king of Sindhu, the king of Saurashtra, the king of Gandhara, the king of Avanti, the king of Aanrta, the king of Pandya respectively. They would both then attain salvation thanks to circling a temple as per Shivapurana Chaturdashamahatmya.