DWARKA AND THE MAHABHARATA
Every Indian, either living in India or living outside India, knows about the two epics that
dominates the Indian psyche and the psyche of the terra firma.
These epics are the Mahabharata
and the Ramayana.
The Mahabharata has...
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DWARKA AND THE MAHABHARATA
Every Indian, either living in India or living outside India, knows about the two epics that
dominates the Indian psyche and the psyche of the terra firma.
These epics are the Mahabharata
and the Ramayana.
The Mahabharata has exercised a continuous and pervasive influence on the
Indian mind for millennia.
The Mahabharata, originally written by Sage Ved Vyas in Sanskrit, has
been translated and adapted into numerous languages and has been set to a variety of
interpretations.
Dating back to "remote antiquity", it is still a living force in the life of the Indian
masses.
With more than 74,000 verses, long prose passages, and about 1.
8 million words in
total, the Mahabharata is one of the longest epic poems in the world.
The Mahabharata has a
total length of more than 90,000 verses.
Everything about the Mahabharata is huge, from its sprawling length, to the enormous breadth of
its vision.
The longest of all epics is like an encyclopedia, a world all on i
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