The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa (Complete 18 Volumes) for Kindle

The Mahabharata, "What is found here, may be found elsewhere. What is not found here, will not be found elsewhere." The ancient story of the Mahabharata casts the readers mind across spiritual and terrestrial vistas and battlefields. Through the experiences of divine incarnations and manifest demons, a great royal dynasty is fractured along fraternal lines, resulting in the greatest war of good and evil ever fought in ancient lands. This most venerable of epics remains profoundly timeless in it teachings of truth, righteousness and liberation. This electronic edition of the Mahabharata is Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1896 translation and is complete with all 18 parvas in a single ebook. Like other ebook conversions, the text has been sourced but this edition has had additional proofing and a significant number of corrections and rectification of missing or misorded text. The contents cover all pavas. All footnotes are hyperlinked for easy reference. The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is an epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kauravas and the Pandava princes as well as containing philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four goals of life. Here we have Adi Parva, the first, discusses how the Mahabharata came to be narrated by Sauti to the assembled rishis at Naimisharanya after having been recited at the Sarpasatra of Janamejaya by Vaishampayana at Takṣaśilā. It tells the history of the Bharata race traces history of the Bhrigu race. Vyasa is a revered figure in Hindu traditions. He is a kala-Avatar or part-incarnation of God Vishnu. Vyasa is sometimes conflated by some Vaishnavas with Badarayana, the compiler of the Vedanta Sutras and considered to be one of the seven Chiranjivins. He is also the fourth member of the Rishi Parampara of the Advaita Guru Paramparā of which Adi Shankara is the chief proponent. The Mahabharata complete series of all Parva in this book. They are :- 1: Adi Parva 2: Sabha Parva 3: Vana Parva 4: Virata Parva 5: Udyoga Parva 6: Bhishma Parva 7: Drona Parva 8: Karna Parva 9: Shalya Parva 10: Sauptika Parva 11: Stri Parva 12: Santi Parva 13: Anusasana Parva 14: Aswamedha Parva 15: Asramavasika Parva 16: Mausala Parva 17: Mahaprasthanika Parva 18: Svargarohanika Parva Language: Trans. Into English from original Sanskrit text Pages: 4900 From the Jacket:The Mahabharata in its present form is equal to about eight times as much as the Illiad and Odyssey put together. The nucleus of the Mahabharata is the great war of eighteen days fought between the, Kauravas, the hundred sons of Dhritarashtra and Pandavas, the five sons of Pandu. The epic entails all the circumstances leading upto the war. In this great Kurukshetra battle were involved almost all the kings of India joining either of the two parties. The result of this war was the total annihilation of Kauravas and their party, and Yudhishthira, the head of the Pandavas, became the sovereign monarch of Hastinapura, symbolizing the victory of good over evil. But the progress of the years new matters and episodes relating to the various aspects of hanuman life, social, economic, political, moral and religious as also fragments of other heroic legends came to be added to the aforesaid nucleus and this phenomenon continued for centuries until it acquired the present shape. This very fact that the Mahabharata represents a whole literature rather than one single and unified work, and contains so many and so multifarious things, makes it more suited than any other book of afford us an insight into the deepest depths of the soul of Indian people.CONTENTS VOLUME - I Prefacev SECTION I Introductory1 SECTION II Parva Sangraha15 SECTION III Paushya Parva32 SECTION IV-XII Pauloma Parva44 SECTION XIII-LVIII Astika Parva53 SECTION LIX-LXIV Adivansavatarana Parva116 SECTION LXV-CXLII Sambhava Parva132 SECTION CXLIII-CLIII Jatugriha Parva302 SECTION CLIV-CLVIII Hidimva-vadha Parva317 SECTION CLIX-CLXVI Vaka-vadha Parva326 SECTION CLXVII-CLXXXV Chaitraratha Parva337 v. 1. Adi parva v. 2. Sabha parva. Vana parva, pt. 1 v. 3. Vana parva, pt. 2 v. 4. Virata parva. Udyoga parva v. 5. Bhishma parva v. 6. Drona parva v. 7. Karna parva. Salya parva. Sauptika parva. Stree parva v. 8-9. Santi parva pt. 1-2 v. 10. Santi parva, pt. 3. Anusasana parva, pt. 1 v. 11. Anusasana parva, pt. 2 v. 12. Aswamedha parva. Asramavasika parva. Mausala parva. Mahaprasthanika parva. Swargarohanika parva.