 A. van Nooten and Shirley Triest, bids them goodbye with the advice, "Rama, demons do not love men, therefore men must love each other".The story of Agastya is mirrored in the second major Hindu epic "Mahabharata".However, instead of Rama, the story is told as a conversation between Yudhishthira and Lomasa starting with section 96 of Book 3, the "Vana Parva" (the Book of Forest).