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  2. Mahabharata - Wikipedia

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    A Persian translation of Mahabharata, titled Razmnameh, was produced at Akbar's orders, by Faizi and ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni in the 16th century. [ 73 ] The first complete English translation was the Victorian prose version by Kisari Mohan Ganguli , [ 74 ] published between 1883 and 1896 (Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers) and by Manmatha Nath ...

  3. Timeline of Hindu texts - Wikipedia

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    The early Upanishads were composed over 900 ... Others. Mahabharata, 400 BCE [4] [5] [6] (Origins likely in the 8th or 9th century BCE) [5] Bhagavad Gita, 400 BCE [2]

  4. Bhagavad Gita - Wikipedia

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    The Bhagavad Gita (/ ˈ b ʌ ɡ ə v ə d ˈ ɡ iː t ɑː /; [1] Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, IPA: [ˌbʱɐɡɐʋɐd ˈɡiːtɑː], romanized: bhagavad-gītā, lit. 'God's song'), [a] often referred to as the Gita (IAST: gītā), is a Hindu scripture, dated to the second or first century BCE, [7] which forms part of the epic Mahabharata.

  5. Epic-Puranic chronology - Wikipedia

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    According to Professor Alf Hiltebeitel, the Mahabharata is essentially mythological. [35] Indian historian Upinder Singh has written that: Whether a bitter war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas ever happened cannot be proved or disproved. It is possible that there was a small-scale conflict, transformed into a gigantic epic war by bards and ...

  6. Indian epic poetry - Wikipedia

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    Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or Kāvya; Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá).The Ramayana and the Mahabharata, which were originally composed in Sanskrit and later translated into many other Indian languages, and the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature and Sangam literature are some of the oldest surviving epic ...

  7. Vyasa - Wikipedia

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    The first section of the Mahābhārata states that Gaṇesha wrote the text to Vyasa's dictation, [a] but this is regarded by scholars as a later interpolation to the epic and this part of the story is also excluded in the "Critical Edition" of the Mahābhārata. [12]

  8. Hindu texts - Wikipedia

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    The Mahabharata also teaches about dharma (duty), the stories of many key figures in Hinduism, ... Composed primarily in Sanskrit, but also in regional languages, ...

  9. Andhra Mahabharatam - Wikipedia

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    Andhra Mahabharatham ఆంధ్ర మహాభారతం is the Telugu version of Mahabharatha written by the Kavitrayam (Trinity of poets), consisting of Nannayya, Thikkana and Yerrapragada (also known as Errana).The three poets translated the Mahabharata from Sanskrit into Telugu over the period of the 11–14th centuries CE, and became the idols for all the following poets. [1]