What is Mahabharata also known as?

The Mahabharata in its original version was called Jaya Samhita, and it was written down by Ganesha and narrated by Maharishi Ved Vyasa. Then it was called Vijaya, then Bharata and finally Mahabharata.

What is special about Mahabharata?

The Mahabharata is an important source of information on the development of Hinduism between 400 bce and 200 ce and is regarded by Hindus as both a text about dharma (Hindu moral law) and a history (itihasa, literally “that’s what happened”).

Is Krishna a bad guy?

Lord Krishna was born just to re-establish justice and dharma, by kiling kauravas and kansa etc. He was neither villain or hero, he did what was right and what should be done.

Is Karna a villain?

He was not villain but he was like mitochondria of Duryodhana. Duryodhana is giant cell of Adharma, skakuni is it’s nucleus, dussasan is Golgi bodies and karna is it’s Mitochondria. Karna was an anti-hero for following reasons.

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 meaning of the word Mahabharata?

Maha means great, and Bharata means the descendants of Bharata, from whom India has derived its name, Bharata. Mahabharata means Great India, or the story of the great descendants of Bharata.Mahabharata contains the story of a race descended from King Bharata, who was the son of Dushyanta and Shakuntalâ.

What is the difference between the Mahabharata and Ramayana?

The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are India’s two great epics. The Mahabharata is a massive and sprawling story about the five heroic and virtuous Panadava brothers and their quest to gain and hold an empire against their wicked cousins, the Kauravas. The epic climaxes with a great battle which destroys all the world’s armies.

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.