Which novel is a modern retelling of Mahabharata?

The Palace of Illusions
02/9’The Palace of Illusions’ by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s bestselling 2008 novel ‘The Palace of Illusions’ is a retelling of the Mahabharata through Draupadi’s point of view.

Is Bori Mahabharata accurate?

BORI is accurate version of Mahabharata for sure . It was years of hardwork by various scholars from 1916 to 1966 and they removed possible interpolations in the Mahabharata.

Who was the first to translate the Mahabharat into English?

Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Vyasa lived around the 3rd millennium BCE. Kisari Mohan Ganguli (also K. M. Ganguly) was an Indian translator, who is most known for the first complete English translation of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata published as The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose between 1883 to 1896.

Where is original Mahabharata manuscript?

One was preserved at the India Office Library, London; the second at the Kolkata-based Samskrita Sahitya Parishad, a 100-year-old research institution.

Which is the best book to start reading Mahabharata?

Given that the original epic has close to a million verses and could take years of study, this is an excellent book to start. Jaya incidentally is the name of the original version of Mahabharata, which was written by Sage Vyasa and it had only ~8800 shlokas.

Is Yuganta a retelling of Mahabharata?

While not essentially a retelling, Yuganta was one of the first popular books in mainstream publishing to question the familiar version of Mahabharata and analyze the story and characters from a different perspective to create new interpretations.

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.

How many Shlokas were there in the Mahabharata?

It was this version which expanded to ~24000 shlokas and came to be known as Bharata. It was further expanded over the years to ~100,000 shlokas and came to be known as Mahabharata.