Mahabharata

[ muh-hah-bahr-uh-tuh ]

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noun

an epic poem of India dealing mainly with the conflict between the Pandavas and the Kauravas, with many digressions: includes the Bhagavad-Gita.

Mahabharata

/ məˌhɑːˈbɑːrətəm; məˌhɑːˈbɑːrətə /

an epic Sanskrit poem of India, dealing chiefly with the struggle between two rival families. It contains many separate episodes, the most notable of which is the Bhagavad-Gita

< Sanskrit mahābhārata great ( mahat ) work relating the story of the descendants of Bharata

Sanskrit, from mahā great + bhārata story

He found his answer in the ancient Sanskrit poem, the Mahabharata, to find the essence of dharma.

A panel on the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata (in which I participated) studied the pragmatic morality of this living text.

In the Brahmanas, Manu, and the Mahabharata, we find a sort of heaven for the virtuous and a hell for the vicious.

The remaining books of the Mahabharata recount the subsequent incidents of the war, which, in all, lasted for eighteen days.

They depend very much on the two great epics, especially the Mahabharata.

They are representations borrowed from the poem of Mahabharata, in the Hindoo mythology.

The story is told in the Mahabharata, an ancient epic of India.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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