In the moving history of our land, from time immemorial great minds have been formed and nourished and touched to heroic deeds by the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. In most Indian homes, …

These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact. This is the comprehensive Ganguli translation of the Mahabharata, which was produced by sacred …

This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online. It …

To the purely English reader there is much in the following pages that will strike as ridiculous. Those unacquainted with any language but their own are generally very exclusive in matters of taste.

For first-time Mahabharata readers, I’ve included a list of characters in an appendix to the book, and you’ll find additional notes at: The paragraph you just read about the Mahabharata is 100 words …

And itihasa consists of India’s two major epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The former is believed to have been composed as poetry and the latter as prose. This isn’t quite correct. The …

Skill in arms attained these princes from a Brahman warrior bold, Drona, priest and proud preceptor, peerless chief of days of old! “Mark the gallant princes, monarch, trained in arms and warlike art, Let …