Ishana

Draupadi watches Yudhishthira suffer in the forest while Suyodhana rules in prosperity, and her faith in dharma shatters. She delivers a blistering speech questioning why his lifelong devotion to righteousness has not protected him, and recounts an ancient tale that paints the supreme god as a capricious child playing with beings like toys.

Markandeya begins to answer Yudhishthira's request by tracing the lineage of Rama from the Ikshvaku king Aja through Dasharatha and his four sons. Then he turns to Ravana's birth, describing how the god Prajapati's line passed through Pulastya, and how a father's anger created the sage Vishrava — the father of the rakshasa king.