Lomasa

Lomasa resumes his account of the sacred tirthas, explaining their origins and the spiritual rewards they offer. Yudhishthira listens as the sage unfolds the geography of merit — lakes where gods bathed, rivers that cleanse lifetimes, and mountains where sages still sit in meditation.

Yudhishthira sits in the forest, consumed by worry — Arjuna has been gone for years, seeking divine weapons, and no word has come. The sage Lomasa, who has walked the earth and seen its farthest reaches, arrives and speaks to him not of strategy, but of something deeper: what it means to wait without breaking.