Mahabharata

Mahabharata, The Greatest Epic. The Mahābhārata, is the greatest, longest and one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyana. With more than 74000 verses, plus long prose passages, or some 1. 8 million words in total, it is one of the longest epic poems in the world. It contains eighteen Parvas or sections viz.