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Can someone please help me and tell me in great detail about the Mahabarhata.?

I want to know about the Mahabarhata the story about a great war that ended one and started another.

Well that sounds like a bit of a problem. From my understanding in its original Sanskrit it is probably the longest epic ever written. So to explain it in the greatest easiest detail would be quite a task.

I did find a site that has an introduction to it and a bit of a break down and the way it is explained is easy to understand. Check it out:

It embodies much of the essence of Indian culture. Said to be written down by the god of writing and beginnings, Ganesha (the elephant-headed god), the Mahabharata is a fascinating story of a feud between two parts of a single Indian ruling family (the Bharata). The epic features a gambling contest in which one set of cousins is tricked out of their kingdom, and the story culminates in a vast, cataclysmic battle. All is told in a heroic and moral context.

The battle represents a real battle between the warring cousins as well as a cosmic moral confrontation. This central part of the epic (the sacred text is called the Bhagavad-Gita) is foundational to the thinking and actions of men of peace like the great Mahatma Gandhi whose revolution of nonviolence brought independence to India in 1947 and a new era of consciousness to the world. And yet it is the dialogue between a warrior and a deity (Krishna) in which the divine figure argues for going to war!

In the final battle, Krishna teaches the warrior that the ultimate conflict is not about land and riches and worldly power. The ultimate battle, waged on cosmic ground, is about the human spirit. In the Mahabharata, the Ultimate Weapon is summoned, a weapon that if used will destroy the world of both matter and spirit. Shrinking from one’s moral duty, refusal to act even when it is most difficult to act, and egotistical attachment to one’s actions–these human weaknesses pose the greatest dangers to survival of the individual and the species.

Ganesha
Ganesha is the Hindu deity of wisdom, writing, and beginnings. Depicted with elephant’s head on a human body, Ganesha is the son of Shiva and Parvati. Ganesha is the scribe to whom Vyasa (compiler of the Mahabharata, and sometimes narrator and vital participant) is telling the story.

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