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Svargarohana Parva is significant for claiming Vyasa as the creator of a poem with 6,000,000 verses with all the eternal knowledge there is. Of these, he gave the gods 3,000,000 verses, 1,500,000 verses to Pitrs (ancestors), 400,000 verses to Yakshas (nature-spirits) and 100,000 verses as Mahabharata to human beings.
Dana-dharma Parva (Chapters: 1–152) 2. Bhishma-svargarohana Parva (Chapters: 153–168) The Parva starts with a visit to Bhishma, who is dying. He is surrounded by sages and rishis including Vashishta, Maitreya, Sanatkumara, Valmiki, Kapila, Vyasadeva and Narada. As with Shanti Parva, Yudhishthira asks for counsel and Bhishma replies. It ...
This Parva (book) has 2 sub-parvas (parts or little books) and 27 adhyayas (sections, chapters). [1] [8] The following are the sub-parvas: [9] [10] 1. Jalapradanika Parva (Chapters: 1–15) Stri Parva recites the trauma and grief of women after the war. It opens with a statement of Dhritrashtra's grief at the death of all his sons and grandsons ...
The Book of Virata (Meitei: Virat Santhuplon) is a translation of the Bengali Virata Parva, by Ramkrishna Das. The translation work was done by the Meitei prince Nabananda in 1780. The prince was formally made heir apparent when his father Ching-Thang Khomba ascended the throne of Manipur in 1763. Prince Nabananda spent around two months in the ...
Gandhari (Sanskrit: गान्धारी, lit. 'of Gandhara', IAST: Gāndhārī) is a prominent figure in the Hindu epic the Mahabharata.She is the daughter of King Subala, the ruler of Gandhara, and becomes the wife of Dhritarashtra, the blind king of Kuru Kingdom.
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Adi Parva (The Beginning) 001–019 1208 2000 P. Lal 02 Sabha Parva (The Assembly Hall) 020–029 491 600 P. Lal 03 Vana Parva (The Forest) 030–050 1400 2000 P. Lal 04 Virata Parva 051–054 303 400 P. Lal 05 Udyoga Parva (The Effort) 055–066 813 1000 P. Lal 06 Bhishma Parva (Bhishma/Tenacity) 067–070 797 1000 P. Lal 07 Drona Parva
Like the vulgate, the chapters in the CE are divided into three parvas, Harivaṃśa parva (chapters 1-45), Viṣṇu parva (chapters 46-113) and Bhaviṣya parva (chapters 114 -118). Vaidya suggests that even the CE represents an expanded text and proposes that the oldest form of Harivamśa probably began with chapter 20 (which is where Agni ...