Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience in nations with radically different languages and cultures as the Mahabharata . van Nooten notes that apart from William Buck\'s rendition no other English version has been able to capture the blend of religion and martial spirit that pervades the original epic..
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It is a moral and philosophical tale as well as a historical one.
Written some 2,000 years ago and probably the longest Indian epic ever composed, it is a story of dynastic struggle that culminates in a fatal clash between two branches of a single ruling family.
Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience in nations with radically different languages and cultures as the Mahabharata
