Mahabharata

n. (Hinduism) holy epic poem written in Sanskrit

For the film by Peter Brook, see The Mahabharata (1989 film). The (Devanagari: ), is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana.With more than 74,000 verses, long prose passages, and about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is one of the longest epic poems in the world. Including the Harivamsa, the Mahabharata has a total length of more than 90,000 verses.
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Noun
1. (Hinduism) a sacred epic Sanskrit poem of India dealing in many episodes with the struggle between two rival families
(synonym) Mahabharatam, Mahabharatum
(hypernym) sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text
(part-meronym) Bhagavad-Gita, Bhagavadgita, Gita
(classification) Hinduism, Hindooism

n. Mahabharata (Hinduism), holy epic poem written in Sanskrit

Mahabharata (Sanskrit) One of the two great epic poems of ancient India, the largest poetic work known to literature, consisting of 220,000 lines. The masses of tradition and tales in this epic make it the national treasury from which bards, poets, dramatists, and artists, as from an inexhaustible source, draw their themes. It contains the history of the family of the Bharatas in addition to a great many beautiful truly mystical and occult teachings, and a few really splendid minor episodes like the Bhagavad-Gita and Anugita. Tradition makes Vyasa -- a generic name of high literary authority, used by at least several archaic writers -- the author of this grand poem. The main theme of the epic is the great struggle between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, descendants through Bharata from Puru, the great ancestor of one branch of the Lunar race. The object of the struggle was the kingdom whose capital was Hastinapura (elephant city), the ruins of which are said to be traceable 57 miles northeast of Delhi, on an old bed of the Ganges.