How many lines are in the Mahabharata?

Its longest version consists of over 100,000 śloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. At about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Rāmāyaṇa.

What is the main message of the Mahabharata?

Several of the important ethical and theological themes of the Mahabharata are tied together in this sermon, namely the difference between just and unjust warfare. Krishna lays out the proper ways of attacking a foe, as well as when it is appropriate to use certain weapons and how prisoners of war should be treated.

How many Kauravas are killed in the Mahabharata?

All the Kauravas are annihilated, and, on the victorious side, only the five Pandava brothers and Krishna survive.

What is the name of the snake in the Mahabharata?

The Pañcavimśa Brahmana (at 25.15.3) enumerates the officiant priests of a sarpasattra among whom the names Dhṛtarāṣtra and Janamejaya, two main characters of the Mahābhārata’ s sarpasattra, as well as Takṣaka, the name of a snake in the Mahābhārata, occur.

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What is the date of Mahabharata war?

Aryabhata’s date of 18 February 3102 BCE for Mahābhārata war has become widespread in Indian tradition. Some sources mark this as the disappearance of Krishna from the Earth.

What is the Battle of Kurukshetra in Mahabharata?

The Battle of Kurukshetra, fought between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, recorded in the Mahabharata. Hindu mythological wars are the wars described in the Hindu texts of ancient India.

Who first recited the Mahabharat epic?

The epic employs the story within a story structure, otherwise known as frametales, popular in many Indian religious and non-religious works. It is first recited at Takshashila by the sage Vaiśampāyana, a disciple of Vyāsa, to the King Janamejaya who is the great-grandson of the Pāṇḍava prince Arjuna.