The Mahabharata Edition: Penguin Classics

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent, and is a major text of Hinduism. Its discussion of human goals (artha or 'purpose', kama or 'pleasure', dharma or 'duty', and moksha or liberation') takes place in a long-standing tradition, attempting to explain the relationship of the individual to society and the world (the nature of the 'Self') and the workings of karma. About the Author John D. Smith was born in Nottingham in 1946. He attended Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read Sanskrit and Hindi. In the early 1970s he held a research fellowship at the Christ's College, Cambridge; this was followed by nine years as lecturer in Sanskirt at the School of Oriental African Studies in the University of London. In 1984 he returned to Cambridge, where he is now emeritus Reader of Sanskrit.

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For pdf of Sanskrit translation prepared by Prof. John Smith visit - https://bombay.indology.info/mahabharata/text/UD/MBh01.txt

For pdf of Hindi translation visit - 

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