MAHABHARATA (INTRODUCTION, TEXT WITH NILKANTHI SANSKRIT COMMENTARY, SLOKAINDEX AND NAME INDEX) 9 VOLS SET

Description

The world’s biggest epic, the Mahabharata has attracted the notice of the
international community to the extent no other work has. Not only is it
large in volume with its. One hundred thousand stanzas in its present
form, it is full of inordinate depth as well. Rightly does the text justify its
name on both these counts: mahattvad bharavattvac on mahabharatam
ucyate, on account of its large extent, mahattvat andits’ depth,
bharavattvat (bhara=sara) the work is given the name mahab=harata. The
kernel of the conflict between the Kauravas and sthe Pandavas, the
members of the same caln is expanded here with the insertion of a whole
lot of episodes, narratives and parables to make it assume the ponderous
dimensions that make the text proclaim : yad ihasti tad anyatra yan
nehasti na tat kvacit, whatever is here is found elsewhere too, whatever
is not here, is found nowhere. Such is its sweep, such is the
comnprehensiveness.
With all the work done on the Mahabharata, it is no longer an epic
confined to India. It has become a part of world literature by being
owned, adopted and adapted by different nationalities.