The Thirteenth Year and the Condition of Invisibility
The Pandavas lost everything in a game of dice, their kingdom, their freedom, twelve years of forest exile. But the thirteenth year carried a different demand. They had to live in complete anonymity, unrecognised, inside a kingdom not their own. If anyone identified them before the year was out, the entire exile would begin again. This was not a year of wandering. It was a year of disappearing.
