T he Mahabharata is an epic retold many times, yet it is equally appealing for its depth, complexity, and timeless wisdom. While most of us are familiar with the larger-than-life tale of the ...

2. A Timeline That Shatters the Myths For a long time, scholars placed the Mahabharata around 900-1000 BCE. But archaeologist B.B. Lal turned that assumption upside down, suggesting the epic could ...

Begin at the beginning: "The Mahabharata" is the longest — at 1.8 million words gathered into couplets — and among the oldest recorded epic cycles in human history. One of the two primary ...