Mahabharata Definition

mähə-bärə-tə
noun
A Sanskrit epic principally concerning the dynastic struggle and civil war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas in the kingdom of Kurukshetra about the 9th century bc , and containing the text of the Bhagavad-Gita, numerous subplots, and interpolations on theology, morals, and statecraft.
American Heritage
One of the two great epics of India, written in Sanskrit about 200 b.c.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Mahabharatum
  • Mahabharatam

Origin of Mahabharata

  • Sanskrit Mahābhāratam great (telling) of the Bharatas mahā- great meg- in Indo-European roots Bhāratam of the Bharatas, descendants of the legendary Indian king Bharata

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mahabharata Sentence Examples

  • The Ramayana and Mahabharata afford evidence of the employment of incense by the Hindus, in the worship of the gods and the burning of the dead, from the remotest antiquity.

  • He is the central figure of legends in the Aitareyabrahmana, Mahabharata and the Markandeyapurana.

  • There were probably two successive Aryan immigrations, and the tradition of a struggle between them may be preserved in the Mahabharata.

  • The origin of the name Berar is not known, but may perhaps be a corruption of Vidarbha, the name of a kingdom in the Deccan of which, in the period of the Mahabharata, Berar probably formed part.

  • According to the Mahabharata he is at last promoted to Paradise as the reward for his munificent charity.

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ATAATA

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