The Mahabarata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - BOOK I - ADI PARVA

The Mahābhārata is one of the great works of world culture and the pinnacle of Sanskrit literature. It is also by some distance an epic of extraordinary length and breadth. Whilst there are many versions the longest is in the order of 1.9 million words across 200,000 lines of verse. In context if you combined both the Iliad and the Odyssey they would run to a mere quarter of its length. Within this sweep lies the Kurukṣetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pāṇḍava princes. Woven within t