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Mahabharata
Sanskrit Hindu epic consisting of 18 books and 90,000 stanzas, originally written in about 900 BC and probably composed in its present form in about 300 BC. It forms with the Ramayana the two great scriptural epics of the Hindus. It contains the Bhagavad-Gita, or Song of the Blessed, an episode in the sixth book, which is regarded as one of the most sacred of Hindu works.
The poem, set on the plain of the Upper Ganges, deals with the fortunes of the warring families of the Kauravas and the Pandavas, each descended from King Bharata, and reveals the ethical values of ancient Indian society and individual responsibility in particular.
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