Vivasvat

Savitri follows Yama as he carries away Satyavan's life, refusing to turn back. Through a sustained dialogue on dharma and virtue, she wins four boons from the god of death — her father-in-law's sight and kingdom, a hundred brothers for her father, a hundred sons through Satyavan — and finally, Satyavan's life itself.

Yudhishthira is weighed down by the calamity that has befallen him. Dhoumya, his priest, speaks to him — not with empty consolation, but with a catalogue of gods who once hid in the most unlikely places: Indra in a hermitage, Vishnu in a womb, Agni in water. If the great-souled ones concealed themselves to conquer their enemies, Dhoumya asks, why should a king not do the same?