[2] After years of recording, abridging, and translating various texts, the poet began to produce his own works, one of which would become Samaya Matrika.
[4] The work pokes fun at the upper class (nobles and merchants), the clergy, the poor, the seasonal harvest, and the government.
[4] The two travel throughout Kashmir, with Kankali using her shapeshifting abilities to instruct her younger ward in the ways of the world; these lessons and observations in turn show Kalavati the general silliness of people.
[4] Kankali is also keen to point out the contradictions seen in people's behavior, such as priests re-selling temple offerings and monks breaking their vows.
Alternatively, Kankali shows her ward the unsung nobility of others, such as a porter who carries water to nearby fields for farming and a noble magistrate who shirks personal wealth to deal fairly with the people.