The Mahabharata is an Indian epic, in its original Sanskrit probably the largest
ever composed. It is the story of a dynastic struggle that provides a social,
moral, and cosmological background to the climatic battle. The present English
rendition is a retelling based on a translation of the Sanskrit original
published by Pratap Chandra Roy, Published in the beginning of this century.
William buck has condensed the story. The old translation from which he worked
covers 5800 pages of print, while his own book is less than a tenth of that
length. But by and large, Buck`s rendition reflects the sequence of events in
the Sanskrit epic,