Mahabharata - E-book - ePub

Mahabharata, The fifth Veda is a three-part summary of the famous ancient, sacred book MAHABHARATA, the world's Greatest Epic. It consists of: Retelling of the exciting main story of the Mahabharata. Ethical Principles and the spiritual essence of the Mahabharata in hundreds of quotations from conversations and teachings of the sages who speak in the Mahabharata. Instructive stories and fables told by the sages in the Mahabharata.
Along with the Bhagavad-Gita (which is but a chapter of the Mahabharata), Srimad-Bhagavatam and Ramayana, the MAHABHARATA is a major work of Vedic literature. With over a hundred thousand verses, it is probably the world's largest epic. It was composed about 5000 years ago in Sanskrit by the great sage Dvaipayana Vyasadeva, who also composed the four Vedas, the 18 Puranas, Vedanta-Sutra, Srimad-Bhagavatam and many other holy scriptures. The Mahabharata contains the entire history of the world from creation to destruction, as well as all the spiritual knowledge of the Vedas.
The Mahabharata is called the fifth Veda. It paints a picture of a bygone culture that was wholly centred on the eternal values of the Vedas.  The Mahabharata is a multi-layered literary work of art. The exciting historical narrative of the lives of the five great Bharata heros, the Pa??avas, the sons of the emperor Pa??u, constitutes its top level or framework of wisdom to be conveyed. The story of the Pa??avas is told in the first part of this book. This Ebook comprises approx.
480 pages. It has glossaries of Sanskrit Terms and Names and a Pronounciation Guide for the Sanskrit letters. It also contains many footnotes, which explain certain things of vedic culture and philosophy, which one otherwise would not understand.