of the Mahabharata include William Buck’s Mahabharata and Elizabeth Seeger’s Five Sons of King Pandu . English translations The first complete English translation was the Victorian prose version by Kisari Mohan Ganguli , [38] published between 1883 and 1896 (Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers) and by M. N. Dutt ( Motilal Banarsidass Publishers).