Where it is argued

• Hidimba and Baka — Bhima kills two man-eaters and wins a rakshasi wife, and Kunti offers her own son to a demon to repay a host's kindness.
• Bhishma and the thousand names — Asked which single dharma stands highest, the grandsire who once called dharma too subtle to judge answers without hedging
• The elders go to the forest — Fifteen years after the war the blind king walks out of Hastinapura with his hand on Gandhari's shoulder, and Kunti leads them both
• The horse sacrifice and the golden mongoose — Yudhishthira performs the richest rite in the epic, and a half-golden mongoose says one poor family's barley meal was worth more
• The slaying of Jarasandha — A king gathering a hundred kings for sacrifice cannot be hurt by weapons, so Bhima kills him bare-handed on a hint from Krishna.
• Yudhishthira's grief — The victor wants to give the kingdom away and live in the forest, and his brothers, his wife, Vyasa and Krishna argue him onto the throne.
• The duties of a king — From his bed of arrows Bhishma explains why the world needs a king at all, and why the people paid Manu to take the job.
• Bhima and the old monkey — Bhima goes to fetch a flower for Draupadi and cannot lift the tail of an old monkey lying across the path, who is his brother Hanuman.