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Item Code: HAH378
Author: P. D. Hegde
Publisher: Vrinda Prakashan, Delhi
Language: English
Edition: 2024
ISBN: 9788195402878
Pages: 431
Cover: HARDCOVER
Other Details 9x6 inch
Weight 708 gm
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About the Author

Dr. P.D. Hegde is a Freelance Writer. He is an M.Sc. from Karnatak University, and he has also completed his M.A. from the same University. Mr. Hegde has written books on subjects like, Education, Yoga, Personality Development, Psychology, Agriculture, History, Religion, Etc. Presently, being a freelance writer Mr. Hegde has written [published books] more than 135 books. [Among them 100 books are in English, and 35 books are in Kannada. About 21 Books are yet to be published.] His popular books are, Modern Psychology, Yoga the Spirit of Life, History of India, Criminology, Agro-Chemistry, History of Inventions, Amazing Animals, Prostitution the Curse of Life, Easy Methods to Learn About Computers, The Great Legends of East India, The Biography of Great Indians, Romantic Poets,..Etc. Mr Hegde has also worked as a Lecturer in a Degree college [Bangalore] for few years. At present Mr Hegde is engaged in writing books related to different subjects.

Preface

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana.

Besides its epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pandava princes, the Mahabharata contains much philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four "goals of life" or purusharthas. Among the principal works and stories that are a part of the Mahabharata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, an abbreviated version of the Ramayana, and the Rishyasringa, often considered as works in their own right.

Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata is at- tributed to Vyasa. There have been many attempts to unravel its historical growth and compositional layers. The oldest preserved parts of the text are thought to be not much older than around 400 BCE, though the origins of the epic prob- ably fall between the 8th and 9th centuries BCE. The text probably reached its final form by the early Gupta period (c. 4th century). The title may be translated as "the great tale of the Bharata dynasty". According to the Mahabharata itself, the tale is extended from a shorter version of 24,000 verses called simply Bharata.

The Mahabharata is the longest epic poem in the world and many a times described as "longest poem ever written". Its longest version consists of over 100,000 shloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. About 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana. W. J. Johnson has compared the importance of the Mahabharata to world civilization to that of the Bible, the works of Shakespeare, the works of Homer, Greek drama, or the Qur'an.

Introduction

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana.

Besides its epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pandava princes, the Mahabharata contains much philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four "goals of life" or purusharthas. Among the principal works and stories that are a part of the Mahabharata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, an abbreviated version of the Ramayana, and the Rishyasringa, often considered as works in their own right.

Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata is at- tributed to Vyasa. There have been many attempts to unravel its historical growth and compositional layers. The oldest preserved parts of the text are thought to be not much older than around 400 BCE, though the origins of the epic prob- ably fall between the 8th and 9th centuries BCE. The text probably reached its final form by the early Gupta period (c. 4th century). The title may be translated as "the great tale of the Bharata dynasty". According to the Mahabharata itself, the tale is extended from a shorter version of 24,000 verses called simply Bharata.

The Mahabharata is the longest epic poem in the world and many a times described as "longest poem ever written". Its longest version consists of over 100,000 shloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. About 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana.

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