num_pages: 192
description: Growing from an oral tradition of ballads based on historic events in India, the Mahabharata was passed down and extended through the centuries, becoming the longest poem ever written. R. K. Narayan provides a superb rendition in an abbreviated and elegant retelling of this great epic.
language: English
title: The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
titlecomplete: The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
genres: Classics, Epic, Philosophy, Religion, Hinduism, India, Spirituality, Poetry, Mythology, Fiction
ratings_count: 2095
publisher: University of Chicago Press