ABOUT THE BOOK: THE MAHABHARATA: A MODERN RENDERING, VOL-1
The Mahabharata is the more recent of India’s two great epics and by far the
longest. First composed by Maharishi Vyasa in verse, it has come down the
centuries in the timeless oral tradition of guru and sishya, profoundly
influencing the history, culture, and art of not only the Indian subcontinent
but most of south-east Asia. At 100,000 couplets it is seven times as long as
the lliad and the Odyssey combined: far and away the greatest recorded epic
known to man.
The Mahabharata is the very Book of Life: in its variety, majesty and also its
violence and