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A map of India depicting various regions during the Mahabharata period The two sides summon vast armies to their help and line up at Kurukshetra for a war. The kingdoms of Panchala , Dwaraka , Kasi, Kekaya , Magadha , Matsya , Chedi , Pandyas , Telinga , the Yadus of Mathura , and some other clans like the Parama Kambojas were allied with the ...
The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India composed by Veda Vyasa. At its heart lies the epic struggle between the Pandavas and the Kauravas. The central characters include the five Pandava brothers—Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva—along with their wife Draupadi.
Scholars note that the accounts in the classical Puranic literature suggest two distinct traditions regarding Ekalavya: one that aligns with the epic’s depiction of social hierarchy and exclusion, and another that seeks to reframe his origins as a Kshatriya (warrior class; second highest varna) to justify his participation in royal and martial traditions.
Then they start their journey of India and the Himalayas. As the Pandavas leave, a dog befriends them and they take him along for the journey. The Pandavas first 'set out with their faces towards the east', reaching the lauhityaṃ salilārṇavam (literally the red waters, possibly the river Brahmaputra , one of whose names is 'Lohit'). [ 1 ]
Clay Sanskrit Library has published a 15 volume set of the Mahabharata which includes Shalya Parva. This translation is modern, by multiple authors and uses an old manuscript of the epic. The translation does not remove verses and chapters now widely believed to be spurious and smuggled into the epic in 1st or 2nd millennium AD. [9]
The Vana Parva, also known as the "Book of the Forest", is the third of eighteen parvas in the Indian epic Mahabharata. [1] Vana Parva traditionally has 21 parts and 324 chapters. [2] [3] The critical edition of Vana Parva is the longest of the 18 books in the epic, [4] containing 16 parts and 299 chapters. [5] [6]
Vyasa is regarded to have taught the Mahabharata of 100,000 verses to Vaishampayana. He is regarded to have recited the epic to King Janamejaya at his sarpa satra (snake sacrifice). [4] The Harivamsha Purana is also recited by him, where he narrates the legend of Prithu's emergence from Vena. [5] [6]
The Sanskrit epic Mahabharata contains several enumeration of tribes or clans.. The earliest terms used "clan" or "tribe" in Vedic Sanskrit were jana and vis. Heinrich Zimmer regarded the word vis to denote a social structure identical with the English "tribe", and different from a grama which, he considered, represented a "clan"—midway between "family" (kula) and tribe.