parva

The received Sanskrit text runs to roughly 100,000 shlokas (two-line verses), organized into eighteen books called parvas .

It is eighteen chapters embedded in the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata , and the Mahabharata is an epic of human authorship.

The Gita occupies the sixth book of the epic, the Bhishma Parva , traditionally chapters twenty-three to forty of that book.

… — Mahābhārata 12.34.13 · Critical Edition; the vulgate numbers Śānti Parva differently The Puranic genealogies fill in the family, and they belong to a later layer than the Upanishad's Prajapati, which is wort…

…ide the Mahabharata , in the vast didactic book called the Anushasana Parva , the book of instruction, where the dying Bhishma spends his last days pouring out everything he knows about duty, kingship, and rele…

The relevant passage sits in the Vana Parva (the "Forest" book, Book Three), in the long section known as the tirtha-yatra .

…he samudra-manthana , is told already in the Mahābhārata , in the Ādi Parva.

The Vishnu Sahasranama , the thousand names of Vishnu, sits within the Mahabharata , in the Anushasana Parva, chapter 149.