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The MahabharataThe Mahabharata
Two sets of royal cousins fall into a catastrophic war over a north Indian throne, drawing in gods, sages, and the whole moral universe, including the great sermon of the Bhagavad Gita. The longest poem ever composed.
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The most encompassing story ever told, a war epic that is also a treasury of philosophy, myth, and human folly. Nothing else in literature attempts so much, or contains so much.
Folklore in this book
The Grove · Hindu folkloreThe gods and heroes of the great Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana: blue-skinned Krishna, the monkey-god Hanuman, the dark mother Kali, painted in oil by Raja Ravi Varma and cast in Chola bronze.Krishna · Rama · Hanuman · Ravana and 16 moreEnter the realm →SettingMythic ancient India
A legendary heroic age of chariot-kings and divine weapons, where questions of duty, kinship, and righteousness are argued out on the eve of a war that will end an epoch.