Is Mahabharat a real war?

The Kurukshetra War (Sanskrit: कुरुक्षेत्र युद्ध ), also called the Mahabharata War, is a war described in the Indian epic poem The Mahābhārata (Sanskrit: महाभारत ). The conflict arose from a dynastic succession struggle between two group of cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandavas, for the throne of Hastinapura.

Who will win Mahabharat war?

Pandavas won the battle. The eldest of Pandavas, Yudhishthira was made a king of Hastinapur. But as goes the Indian tradition, the righteous and duty-conscious Dharma Raja (Yudhishthir) did not allow the power to go to his head.

Why don’t the Mahabharata kings ever return to tell us what happened?

They wouldn’t want to keep such information. The same thing happened in the modern World War, which was actually just a war around the world. But the Mahabharata war was one massacre at one single place, and nobody went back. None of the kings or soldiers returned to tell what happened.

Is the Kurushetra war related to the Mahabharata war?

The time frame does not look like it is the Mahabharata war, but the great Achilles fighting and other such stories of Greek mythology have a very close similarity to stories from the Kurushetra war. In Greek mythology some of these stories are internally dated much before the time of the Kurushetra war.

Which is the oldest chapter in the Mahabharata?

The chapters ( parvas) dealing with the war are considered amongst the oldest in the entire Mahābhārata . Mahabharata, one of the most important Hindu epics, is an account of the life and deeds of several generations of a ruling dynasty called the Kuru clan.

Did the Mahabharata war take place in 3067 BCE?

B. N. Achar used planetarium software to argue that the Mahabharata War took place in 3067 BCE. S. Balakrishna concluded a date of 2559 BCE using consecutive lunar eclipses. R. N. Iyengar concluded a date of 1478 BCE using double eclipses and Saturn+Jupiter conjunctions.