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The purpose of this site is to provide resources on the Great Itihasa, Mahabharata.

Jaya - Siddhinathananda Swami
Explains the meaning of Jaya, the other name of Mahabharata, its connection with Sacrifice via the number eighteen which pervades Mahabharata.

Sanskrit Recensions and Editions of the Mahabharata

• Introduction to Mahabharata by Dr. P. Lal
  Read this article in French, Malayalam
  

• Annotated Bibliographies on Mahabharata
  • By Dr. P. Lal (Published by Writers Workshop, 1967)
  • By Dr. Pradip Bhattacharya
  • French Bibliography commented by Dr. Guy Vincent
  • List of Recent Russian Publications on Sanskrit Epics and Puranas compiled by Dr. Yaroslav Vassilkov

• Electronic Texts of Mahabharata
  • Critical Edition of Mahabharata
    (Electronic text of Mahabharata (Critical Edition) available from here thanks to Dr. Muneo Tokunaga and Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute and Dr. John Smith)
    

    Vyasa Mahabharata (all eighteen Parvas) (CE) in Devanagari is available also here .

  • Anugita
    1. English Translation by Kashinath Trimbak Telang

    2. English Translation by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

    3. Anugita, an expose on samkhya and yoga doctrines in the Mahabharata - Guy Vincent (Translated by Gilles Schaufulberger)

  • Benedictory Verses in manuscripts
    English Translation by Satya Chaitanya

  • From MBH appendix of BORI relating to the former births of Draupadi
    English Translation by Satya Chaitanya

  • Selections from Southern Recensions of Mahabharata

  • Mahabharata Commentaries

  • English Translation by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
    (Downloadable electronic text available at www.sacred-texts.com)

    Chapterwise table of contents of the Ganguli translation (45 pages). Prepared by Duncan Watson.

• Harivamsa (On-going Project) To Harivamsa Resources Page
  
  • Text of Harivamsa (Sanskrit text follows that edited by Pandit Ramachandrashastri Kinjawadekar and published by the chitrasala press in 1936. Text in itrans prepared by K.S. Ramachandran and Gilles Shchhaufelberger.
    English Translation of Harivamsha Parva by Desiraju Hanumanta Rao.

  • Selections from Vishnu Parva of Southern Recension
  • Sheshadharamaprakaranam
    The Appendix II of the Critical Edition of the BORI Harivamsa contains a section called Sheshadharmaprakaranam found in a few manuscripts of Harivamsa and in a few independent manuscripts.
    Text in itrans prepared by A. Purushothaman.

  • Scanned texts of Harivamsa with Nilakantha commentary available on the internet

• Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya
  • Mahabharata-Tatparya-Nirnaya by Acharya Madhva - A critical edition of the oldest datable commentary on the Mahabharata.
  • Table of Contents of Mahabharata-Tatparya-Nirnaya.
    

  • English summary of Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya of Madhvacharya by Prof. K.T. Pandurangi.
    1. Part 1
    2. Part 2
    3. Part 3
    4. Part 4

  • English Translation of Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya
    Chapters 1-9 by B. Gururajah Rao
    Chapters 10-16 by by Desiraju Hanumanta Rao
    Chapters 17 by Harshala Rajesh based on the Kannada translation by R.H. Kulkarni
    Chapters 18 onwards by Harshala Rajesh based on the Kannada translation, explanation and special notes by Dr. Vyasanakere Prabhanjanacharya
    
  • Audio archival of a discourse (140 hrs) on Mahabharata in Kannada by Dr. Vyasanakere Prabhanjanacharya based on Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya is available at http://www.vyasamadhwa.org/upanyasa/Mahabharata
    
  • For detailed information on Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya, visit this site maintained by Harshala Rajesh
    

Translations, Retellings, Online Articles etc.

• James L. Fitzgerald's Mahabharata page

• Selections from Translations (on line)
  • By Edwin Arnold Indian Idylls from Sanskrit Mahabharata (Savitri, Nala and Damayanti, The Enchanted Lake, The Saint's Temptation, The Birth of Death, The Night of Slaughter, The Great Journey, The Entry into Heaven)

  • Selections from Translation in French by Gilles Schaufelberger and Guy Vincent
    This site also contains among others, a complete book by book and chapter by chapter summary of the Epic in French.

• Mahabharata Retellings on line
  • Retelling by Romesh C. Dutt on line
  • Retelling by Rajaji (C. Rajagopalachari) on line
  • Retelling by Richard Blumberg on line
  • Retelling by Kamesh Aiyer on line

• The Mahabharata of Vyasa: A Reading of the Epic by Dr. P. Lal
  The Announcement
• Mahabharata Podcast Lawrence Manzo

• Mahabharata in Translation

• Mahabharata retellings in Indian languages

• Mahabharata inspired works in Indian languages

• Mahabharata Retellings in English

• Mahabharata in Art and Theatre

• Some on line articles related to Mahabharata

• Some on line articles in Malayalam related to Mahabharata

• Many Mahabharatas
  • Sanskrit

  • Bengali

  • Malayalam

• Variations of Mahabharata

• Epics - Creative Insights on-line

• Mahabharata Translators

• Temple Legends with Mahabharata Connection

• Views/Comments on Mahabharata

• Bharata Savitri (four slokas) The Essence of Bharata (from Svargarohana Parva)

• The hundred sloka Bharata Savitri (Supplement to Harivamsa)

• Mahabharata Related Works
• The Man in the Well A parable from Mahabharata

• Mahabharata trees

• Quotes from Mahabharata

• Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary on line
  Also here .

• Links

Acknowledgements

This page maintained by A. Harindranath