Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
The Mahabharata is not a novel. It is the longest epic poem ever composed: about 1.8 million words, ten times the Iliad and the Odyssey put together. Its Sanskrit title means “the great story of the Bharatas,” a royal line of ancient India.
At the center: a war between brothers for the throne of Hastinapura, the mythical capital of the north. Two branches of the same family tear each other apart. In the middle of the chaos, one sacred dialogue changes everything: the Bhagavad-Gita, one of the most read texts in Hinduism.
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- 2How an encyclopedia of the soul came together
- 3The machinery of the war of Kurukshetra
- 4The sacred dialogue of the Bhagavad-Gita
- 5A universal intellectual legacy
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary13 terms explained in a tap.
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