Mahabharata
महाभारत mahābhārataThe vast Sanskrit epic of the Bharata dynasty, often called the longest poem in the world. The Bhagavad Gita is a passage within it, in the sixth book.
Where this term appears
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are works of human authorship, traced to the sages Valmiki and Vyasa in the tradition's own accounts.
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
It is the number of books in the Mahabharata, the number of days of its war, the number of chapters in the Bhagavad Gita.
- What are the Vedas? Scriptures
The great epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana , the Puranas , the law book attributed to Manu: all of these are smriti.
- What is the Bhagavad Gita? Scriptures
It is a passage inside the Mahabharata , the vast Sanskrit epic of the Bharata dynasty, often called the longest poem in the world.
- What is the Mahabharata? Scriptures
…000 verses arriving at, and recovering from, that battle. This is the Mahabharata.
- What is the Ramayana? Scriptures
The tradition classes the Ramayana , along with the Mahabharata , as itihasa , a word often unpacked as "so indeed it was." For many devotees the events are simply history, and Rama a king who lived and ruled.
- Devas and Asuras Deities
In the twelfth book of the Mahabharata , after the war is over and the ground is covered with the dead, Vyasa is trying to talk Yudhishthira out of his despair, and reaches for a precedent.
- Dharma, Karma and Rebirth Essentials
…harma of distress, a whole body of teaching, treated at length in the Mahabharata , for what becomes permitted when ordinary life breaks down and a person must do what the settled rules would otherwise forbid.