महाभारतम्

Mahabharata

AuthorKrishna Dvaipayana Vyasa

LanguageEpic Sanskrit

Year300 BCE

CountryIndia

GenreEpic / Long-form / Standalone Poem

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The Mahābhārata is a smriti text from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Ramayana. It narrates the events and aftermath of the Kurukshetra War, a war of succession between two groups of princely cousins, the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas. It contains philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four "goals of life" or puruṣārtha (12.161). Among the principal works and stories in the Mahābhārata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, Shakuntala, Pururava and Urvashi, Savitri and Satyavan, Kacha and Devayani, Rishyasringa and an abbreviated version of the Rāmāyaṇa.— Wikipedia