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| | Mahabharata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Linguistically, the language of the Mahabharata is classified as "Epic" Sanskrit, the oldest stratum post-dating late Vedic Sanskrit, dating to perhaps the 5th century BCE. | | | The Mahabharata itself ends with the death of Krishna, and the subsequent end of his dynasty, and ascent of the Pandava brothers to Heaven. | | | The Mahabharata (Devanagari: महाभारत, phonetically Mahābhārata - see note), sometimes just called Bharata, is one of the two major ancient Sanskrit epics of India, the other being the Ramayana. |
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| | Mahabharata |
| | The Mahabharata is revered as scripture by Vaishnavites and Smartas. | | | The Mahabharata is an encyclopaedia of Hindu Dharma. | | | Read more here: » Mahabharata: The Mahabharata in the Hindu Scriptures |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Mahabharata: Books |
| | I myself am a priest trained in the Vaishnava tradition, followers of Vishnu or Krishna, and Mahabharata is a Vaishnava text. | | | Culminating in an apocalyptic war, Mahabharata is a masterpiece of suspense, intrigue, and illuminating wisdom. | | | Being himself a spiritual disciple in the line that comes from Vyasa, he is well positioned to understand its sublime and uplifting message. |
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| | The Mahabharata |
| | The several centuries during which the epic took shape were a period of transition from the religion of Vedic sacrifice to the sectarian, internalized worship of later Hinduism, and different sections of the poem express varying and sometimes contradictory beliefs. | | | Interwoven with its episodes are the romance of Nala and Damayanti; the legend of Savitri, whose devotion to her dead husband persuades Yama, the god of death, to restore him to life; descriptions of places of pilgrimages; and many other myths and legends. | | | Contained within the Mahabharata is the Bhagavadgita ("Song of the Lord"), which is the single most important religious text of Hinduism. |
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http://www.miracosta.cc.ca.us/home/gfloren/mahabharata.htm
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| | The Mahabharata |
| | The Mahabharata (pronounced approximately as Ma-haa-BHAAR-a-ta) is an ancient religious epic of | | | The purpose of this web page is to introduce those unfamiliar with the Mahabharata to this literary and spiritual marvel and to provide initial and basic assistance in becoming familiar with the text to anyone who wants such help. | | | It has existed in many forms, the fundamental one being a text in ancient Sanskrit which may well be the world's second largest book (after the Gesar Epic of Tibet). |
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http://web.utk.edu/~jftzgrld/MBh1Home.html
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| | Mahabharata |
| | Their texts are saying the same thing as the Mahabharata. | | | There are hundreds of Tamil verses glorifying that king who cooked for the Pandavas during the Mahabharata war. | | | None of the kings or soldiers returned to tell what happened. |
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http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/encyclopedia/warhistory.htm
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| | MAHABHARATA retold by C |
| | Thus the Mahabharata came to be written by Ganapati to the dictation of Vyasa. | | | Having conceived the Mahabharata he thought of the means of giving the sacred story to the world. | | | It was he who gave to the world the divine epic of the Mahabharata. |
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http://home.att.net/~gitaprasad/mahabharata.htm
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| | R.K. Narayan: The Mahabharata; The Ramayana - review |
| | In the Mahabharata the five Pandava brothers (Yudhistira, Arjuna, Bhima, Nakula, and Sahadeva) struggle to obtain their inheritance, culminating in the great battle of Kurukshetra. | | | To this end, Narayan's versions could be used in schools and read by (or to) children, along with the stories of biblical and Greek mythology. | | | The Ramayana centres on Rama, avatar of Vishnu, covering his marriage, the theft of his wife Sita by the demon-king Ravana, and the search and struggle to recover her. |
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http://dannyreviews.com/h/Ramayana_Mahabharata.html
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| | Mahabharata on Encyclopedia.com |
| | MAHABHARATA [Mahabharata], classical Sanskrit epic of India, probably composed between 200 BC and AD 200. | | | The great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, relates that it was here, many thousands o (PAR61457) | | | The great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, relates that it was here, many thousands of years ago, that |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/m/mahabhar.asp
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| | Mahabharata |
| | In the Mahabharata Shiva is not the “destroyer” of the later Puranas, but has more to do with blessings of fertility: he also granted Gandhari her 100 sons. | | | In the first two books of the Mahabharata, we learn the background of the Bharatas (also called the Kurus) leading up to the conflict between the five sons of Pandu and their cousins the Kauravas. | | | Santanu, king of Hastinapura, was married to the beautiful Ganga, who was the river goddess in disguise. |
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| | The Hindu : Magazine / Columns : Timeless epic |
| | The essential Mahabharata is whatever is relevant to us in the second half of the 20th Century; whatever helps us understand and live better our own Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha (faith, wealth, pleasure and salvation)... | | | What are the possibilities the Mahabharata offers us at the beginning of the 21st Century? | | | A very old book, in fact: the Mahabharata. |
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http://www.hindu.com/mag/2005/01/02/stories/2005010200440300.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa (4 Volume Set): Books: Kisari Mohan Ganguly |
| | Still, this edition is a must have for all enthusiasts of the Mahabharata, students of Sanskrit literature, and Sanskrit scholars. | | | Mahabharata: The Greatest Spiritual Epic of All Time by Krishna Dharma | | | Also, to really get a feeling for the magic of the Mahabharata, you have to read at least a bit of it in Sanskrit. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/8121505933?v=glance
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| | The Mahabharata |
| | Later on, Suta recited the Mahabharata as was done by Vaisampayana to Janamejaya, to Saunaka and others, during a sacrifice performed by Saunaka in Naimisaranya, which is near Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh. | | | Glory to Sri Bhagavan Vyasa, the grandsire of the heroes, the author of the Mahabharata, a Chiranjeevi and an Avatara of Lord Hari. | | | You will attain everlasting happiness and Moksha, the summum bonum of life. |
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http://www.sivanandadlshq.org/religions/mahabharata.htm
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| | Manipur: The Land of Jewels |
| | The Mahabharata is said to have been written by Sage Vyasa sometime between 400 B.C. and 200 A.D. The word Maha in Sanskrit is an adjective that means something that is great or extraordinary and Bharata is India, but this Epic is about much more than just India. | | | Their view is that, Meiteis and Meitei language is of kuki-chin origin and a kuki-chin group language group cannot be related with the people and language of epic Mahabharata. | | | No such tradition exist in any part of Orissa and no memory of a locality named Manalur In some manuscripts of the Mahabharata as well as in the Adi Parva the name is written as Manular instead of Manipur) has survived. |
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| | The Mahabharata |
| | As in the Greek epics--the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Mahabharata takes us back to a heroic age, where men and women walk and talk with gods and goddesses, where rivers and other natural features function as both divine or semi-divine beings, where women mate with gods and give birth to demi-gods. | | | The Mahabharata, in its original Sanskrit probably the longest epic ever composed, embodies much of the essence of Indian culture. | | | It's an age of adventure: deeds of strength and courage are both fearful and awesome, and everything seems to be larger than life and full of wonder. |
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http://www.miracosta.cc.ca.us/home/gfloren/mahab1.htm
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| | Ethics of the Literature of India by Sanderson Beck |
| | Vyasa managed to portray himself in the poem as the progenitor of the two kings whose sons fight for the kingdom of Bharata, as his mother asks him to father sons on a widow and the wife of the celibate Bhishma and a third on a low-caste servant maid. | | | The military hero Rama is divinized and becomes an object of worship as an incarnation of the Preserver Vishnu, and Sita is held up as the model of outstanding womanhood, exemplifying beauty, patience, loyalty, kindness, and mercy. | | | Written over many centuries and not completed until sometime between the fourth century BC and the fourth century CE, they probably grew out of the story-telling of the traditional bards (sutas) who acted as charioteers to kings. |
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| | http://www.hinduism.co.za |
| | Brahmacharya - Celibacy From The Mahabharata) Purity of speech, of body and of mind, forgiveness, truth, steadiness, and intelligence, - these good qualities are displayed by righteous persons observant of both kinds of religion. | | | Vyasa said: That fool who believing that all this exists in consequence of its own nature without, in fact, an existent refuge or foundation, fills by such instruction the aspirations of disciples, dispelling by his dialectical ingenuity the reasons the latter might urge to the contrary, succeeds not in attaining to any truth. | | | It is from ignorance of that One, that godheads have been conceived to be diverse. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Mahabharata |
| | Although both are basically secular works, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana are ritually recited and are thought to confer religious merit on their hearers. | | | It has influenced devout Hindu believers for centuries. | | | The most important segment of the poem is the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue between Krishna, the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu, and the Pandava hero Arjuna on the meaning of life. |
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| | MAHABHARATA |
| | · Sullivan, Bruce M. "The Religious Authority of the Mahabharata: Vyasa and Brahma in the Hindu Scriptural Tradition," in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 62:377-401, Sum. | | | · Laine, James L. Visions of God: Narratives of the Theophany in the Mahabharata, Publications of the DeNobili research Library, Vienna, 1989. | | | The focal point of the text seems to center around Arjuna as a prototypical Hindu role model. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/ReligiousStudies/TheStrip/Archive/Hindu/maha.htm
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| | The Story of the Mahabharata |
| | The one hundred Dhartarashtras, on the other hand, had a grotesque, demonic birth, and are said more than once in the text to be human incarnations of the demons who are the perpetual enemies of the Gods. | | | The Pandavas won the eighteen day battle, but it was a victory that deeply troubled all except those who were able to understand things on the divine level (chiefly Krishna, Vyasa, and Bhishma [BHEESH-ma], the Bharata patriarch who was emblematic of the virtues of the era now passing away). | | | The most dramatic figure of the entire Mahabharata, however, is Krishna Vasudeva [Vaa-su-DAY-va], who was the supreme God Vishnu himself, descended to earth in human form to rescue Law, Good Deeds, Right, and Virtue (all of these words refer to different aspects of "dharma"). |
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| | Mahâbhârata-Tâtparya-Nirnaya Bhâva-Sangraha |
| | Therefore, as commanded by the author of the Mahabharata Himself, the great Acarya undertook the task of writing a text that would rescue the deserving seeker from the morass of ignorance and uncertainty. | | | This latter task has, however, been carried out with aplomb by the renowned Sri Raghavendra Tirtha, who captures the essential aspects of each chapter of the Mahabharata-Tatparya-Nirnaya in one verse. | | | See the commentary of Sri Vadiraja Tirtha on II-3 for details. |
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| | Mahabharata Resources |
| | Vyasa Mahabharata (all eighteen Parvas) (CE) in Devanagari is available also here. | | | Indian Idylls from Sanskrit Mahabharata (Savitri, Nala and Damayanti, The Enchanted Lake, The Saint's Temptation, The Birth of Death, The Night of Slaughter, The Great Journey, The Entry into Heaven) | | | This site also contains among others, a a complete book by book and chapter by chapter summary of the Epic in French. |
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| | The Mahabharata,Story of The Mahabharata,Indian Mythology Stories |
| | Indian Scriptures assist in the search for 'Self and the Ultimate Truth' - the Holy Grail that man has sought after ceaselessly down the ages. | | | Tradition has it that the Ramayana (see Ramayana) was written at the date much earlier than the | | | The Mahabharata, perhaps with some justification, is said to be the longest poem in the world. |
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http://www.indiasite.com/scriptures/mahabharata.html
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| | Mahabharata |
| | Though the Mahabharata has the story of many lives woven into one another, the predominant narration is of 2 brothers and their families. | | | Krishna explained to Arjuna that he should only be concerned with performing his duty to the best of his capacity, the fruits or results of the action, lie with God. | | | I know that a lot of you have enjoyed reading stories from the Bhaagvad, information on festivals and religions,and so many more stories on my web-site... |
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http://www.dalsabzi.com/mahabharata_.htm
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| | Mahabharata |
| | The Mahabharata, the longest epic poem in the world, consists of about 100,000 slokas or Sanskrit verses. | | | The author, it is said, is Veda Vyasa was a witness to all the events. | | | The Mahabharata's greatest contribution is the Bhagawad Gita. |
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http://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/ACK15
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| | Mahabharata: The Condensed Version of the World's Greatest Epic |
| | We are taken with them on an extraordinary journey, meeting sages, kings, demons, heroines, and celestial beings. | | | Culminating in an apocalyptic war, Mahabharata is a masterpiece of adventure, intrigue, romance, and spiritual wisdom. | | | By Krishna Dharma Dasa An exciting and profound story of life in ancient times, Mahabharata is at once a fascinating epic and a compendium of ethical and spiritual teachings. |
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| | Books By Rajaji - Mahabharata - Index |
| | The Publisher's Preface On the book "Maha- bharata" summarized by one of the greatest living Indians, C.Raja Gopala Chari. | | | All those who have heard the story of the Mahabharata Know about Ghatotkacha, Bheemasena's famous son by his asura wife. | | | Bhagavan Vyasa, the cele-brated compiler of the Vedas and it was he who gave to the world divine epic of the "Maha- bharata" |
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| | "The Mahabharata" (1989) (mini) |
| | I saw it four times (all 5 and a half hours at once) and all the time I was literally mesmerized by the greatness of "Mahabharata". | | | And this picture will especially interest those who love and understand modern theater (don't forget - it's not just a movie, it's a TV-version of a stage presentation). | | | I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it |
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| | Mahabharata - Joglosemar |
| | It discloses the continuos war between 'evil' and 'goodness', at the end after a very long battle the goodness shall win, with the blessing of God Almighty, and after a lot of sacrifices had been done. | | | The MAHABHARATA contains moral and philosophical teachings adopted by many Javanese. | | | SATYAWATI, the daughter of fisherman with amazing charm and beauty, undoubtedly had a lot of admirers. |
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| | Ramayana and Mahabharata Index |
| | This is an abridged verse translation of the two longest epic poems in world literature, the Ramayana and Mahabharata. | | | A complete Ramayana translation can be found here, and the (nearly complete) Mahabharata can be found here. | | | This translation is surprisingly readable and very moving once you get used to the rhymed couplet format. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/dutt
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| | Syllabus (Epics of India) |
| | Mahabharata translated into English (Roy/Ganguli translation at Sacred Texts) | | | See links in the article on Bhagavad-Gita in the Encyclopedia. | | | The Brides of the Bharatas (essay on women in the Mahabharata, by Satya Chaitanya) |
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| | Liz Henry |
| | The Mahabharata is an epic that tells the story of a conflict in a kingdom of northern India. | | | Details of religious rites, myths, stories within stories, law, and philosphical musings are interspersed with the main plot, which follows the fortunes of the ruling family of Kurujangala, the Bharatas, and the causes of their disastrous civil war. |
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| | Sacred-Texts: Hinduism |
| | The Ganguli English translation of the Mahabharata is the only complete one in the public domain. | | | The following errors have been corrected or noted in the HTML version; the text version has not been altered at this time, so please note the following errata. | | | Download the Mahabharata in text format mahatxt.zip [5 Mb (5,248,645 bytes)]. |
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| | The Mahabharata |
| | This site houses the electronic text of the Mahabharata. | | | utility programs allowing easy switching between encodings (character sets), high-quality Nagari printing of Mahabharata and Ramayana text, metrical analysis of Sanskrit verse, etc. | | | read an account of the early phases of the project to bring into being a complete, accurate electronic Mahabharata |
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| | Mahabharata |
| | This attempt at making the epic Mahabharata available on the web in devanagari script is based on the original Mahabharata encoding by Prof. | | | His Mahabharata Page has details of the project. | | | Muneo Tokunaga of Kyoto, Japan, which were modified and corrected by Prof. |
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http://www.hindunet.org/mahabharata
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| | Kamat's Potpourri: Topics on Mahabharat - Table of Contents |
| | The Bhagavad-Gita is the war time counsel of Krishna to his disciple-relative Arjuna during the Mahabharata war. | | | Mahabharat) is a great story of sibling rivalry, of complex interwoven sub-stories, of philosophy, divinity, adventure, bravery, and betrayal. | | | Learn about some of the important characters of Mahabharata epic. |
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http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/mythology/mahabharat
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| | Aum, Ganesha... |
| | I offered to postpone the talk again, but the Board members very graciously urged me to deliver it that evening, which I did, and I must say that I was grateful for the attention that I received, despite the very distracting action on that other front. | | | Again, the story of the Mahabharata has resonance... |
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| | "A Wonder of Ancient India: The Mahabharata" by Nhilde Davidson |
| | "A Wonder of Ancient India: The Mahabharata" by Nhilde Davidson | | | Daunted by its size and a misconception that an intimate understanding of Hinduism was needed, I never considered taking the | | | Marketing Agents for India, J. Electronics, 258 Palika Bazar, Cannaught Place, New Delhi - 110001. |
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| | Peter Brook and the Mahabharata Home Page |
| | For permission to quote as well as other inquiries and comments, please contact me at: | | | A copy on DVD of the Peter Brook production, abridged to 6 hours is available at Amazon.com. | | | PETER BROOK, THE MAHABHARATA AND THE RE-IMAGING OF THEATRE |
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