num_pages: 600
description: The Mahabharata is one of the greatest stories ever told. Though thebasic plot is widely known there is much more to the epic than the disputebetween Kouravas and Pandavas that led to the battle in Kurukshetra. Ithas innumerable sub-plots that accommodate fascinating meanderingsand digressions and it has rarely been translated in full given itsformidable length of 80000 shlokas or couplets. This magnificent 10-volume unabridged translation of the epic is based on the Critical Editioncompiled at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute.It is the aftermath of the war in Volume 8. Ashvatthama kills all the remainingPandavaswith the exception of the five Pandava brothersandPanchalas. The funeral ceremonies for the dead warriors are performed.Bhishmas teachings in the Shanti Parva after Yudhishthira is crowned isabout duties to be followed under different circumstances.Every conceivable human emotion figures in the Mahabharata the reasonwhy the epic continues to hold sway over our imagination. In this lucidnuanced and confident translation Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharatamarvellously accessible to contemporary readers.
language: English
title: The Mahabharata
publisher: Penguin