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    The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana. It is an epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War between the Kauravas and Pandavas, as well as containing philosophical and devotional material. Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to Vyasa, though it was not fully composed until around the 4th century CE. At over 200,000 verses, it is one of the longest epic poems in the world.

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    The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana. It is an epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War between the Kauravas and Pandavas, as well as containing philosophical and devotional material. Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to Vyasa, though it was not fully composed until around the 4th century CE. At over 200,000 verses, it is one of the longest epic poems in the world.

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    The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana. It is an epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War between the Kauravas and Pandavas, as well as containing philosophical and devotional material. Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to Vyasa, though it was not fully composed until around the 4th century CE. At over 200,000 verses, it is one of the longest epic poems in the world.

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    The Mahabharata (Sanskrit Mahabharata ???????, IPA: [m??a?'b?a?r?t??

    ]) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana. Th e epic is part of itihasa.[1] Besides its epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kauravas and the Pandavas, the Mahabharata contains much philosophical and devotional mat erial, such as a discussion of the four "goals of life" or purusharthas (12.161) . The latter are enumerated as dharma (right action), artha (purpose), kama (ple asure), and moksha (liberation). Among the principal works and stories that are a part of the Mahabharata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, an abbr eviated version of the Ramayana, and the Rishyasringa, often considered as works in their own right. Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to Vyasa. There h ave been many attempts to unravel its historical growth and compositional layers . The oldest preserved parts of the text are not thought to be appreciably older than around 400 BCE, though the origins of the story probably fall between the 8th and 9th centuries BCE.[2] The text probably reached its final form by the ea rly Gupta period (ca. fourth century CE).[3] The title may be translated as "the great tale of the Bharata dynasty". According to the Mahabharata itself, the ta le is extended from a shorter version of 24,000 verses called simply Bharata.[4] The Mahabharata is the longest Sanskrit epic.[5] Its longest version consists of over 100,000 shloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a co uplet), and long prose passages. About 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabhara ta is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined, or about f our times the length of the Ramayana.[6][7] W. J. Johnson has compared the impor tance of the Mahabharata to world civilization to that of the Bible, the works o f Shakespeare, the works of Homer, Greek drama, or the Qur'an.[8]

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