The monumental Sanskrit poem the Mahabharata, attributed to the legendary poet-seer Krsna Dvaipayana Vyasa (fifth century? BCE), although perhaps not the oldest epic poem to have survived from antiquity, is certainly the longest and undoubtedly among...

the ‘great epic of the Bharatas’, the longest epic poem in the world, of great importance to Hindus, which describes the events before, during and after the ferocious war between the Kauravas and , and deals on many occasions with questions...

One of the two major Sanskrit epics of India, valued for its literary merit and its religious inspiration. It tells of the struggle for supremacy between two groups of cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandavas. Many myths and legends are woven into the...

The Great War. The Epic poem of India which includes the Bhagavad Gītā. The Ramāyāna is the source of most of the dramatic art in sculpture, mime and dancing in Thailand and Cambodia, and influenced all south-east...

The MahÄbhÄrata (Devanagari: महाभारत), /mÉɦaËbʱaËrÉt̪É/ is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana. With more than 74,000 verses, long prose passages, and about 1.8 million words in...