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 of morality and duty and with many religious topics, including the meaning of life, salvation and the ways of achieving it. The tradition has it that the great war took place in 3102 B.C.
and that with it started the present dark age of human history (Kali Yuga), but if there is a historical reality behind it, it will have taken place after 1000 B.C. Begun in the mist of those early times, the epic started taking its familiar shape from around the third century B.C. and grew over subsequent centuries by constant elaboration and additions of further episodes for perhaps another 600 more years, although some interpolations occurred later still. Tradition attributes the authorship of the epic to Dvaipāyana, a legendary figure known as Vyāsa (the arranger), who himself appears in the epic, participating in the events.
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, and deals on many occasions with questions of morality and duty and with many religious topics, including the meaning of life, salvation and the 
tradition has it that the great war took place in 3102 B.C. 
Dvaipāyana, a legendary figure known as Vyāsa (the arranger), who himself appears in the epic, participating in the events.
