 According to this view, Ahalya is the "epitome of the chaste wife, unjustly accused of adultery", while her "proverbial loyalty to her husband" makes her venerable.Ahalya is often regarded as the leader of the "panchkanya" due to the "nobility of her character, her extraordinary beauty and the fact of her being chronologically the first "kanya"".In the "Devi-Bhagavata Purana", Ahalya is included in a list of secondary goddesses, who are "auspicious, glorious and much praiseworthy", alongside Tara and Mandodari as well as some of the "pancha-sati"s ("five "sati"s or chaste wives") Arundhati and Damayanti.