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2010The Epics. History, Tradition, and Myth-MAHABHARATA

The Mahabharata, translated as "Great India", or "the great tale of the Bharata Dynasty", is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana. It is the longest epic poem in the world consisting about one hundred thousand verses, plus long prose passages, or some 1.8 million words in total. Tthe Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana. The epic is part of the Hindu itihasa (or "history").
The Mahābhārata begins by introducing Ugrasrava: "Ugrasrava, the son of Lomaharshana, surnamed Sauti, well-versed in the Puranas, bending with humility, one day approached the great sages of rigid vows, sitting at their ease, who had attended the twelve year sacrifice of Saunaka, surnamed Kulapati, in the forest of Naimisha." (Mahabharata 1:1)
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