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I badly want to read Mahabharata Can you please provide me the link for the book ? I need a translated version(English) I am not that good with Sanskrit or Hindi ! But native language is different !

I do not wish to learn the story in entirety of its details so please do not suggest an unabridged version but want a fairly accurate and unbiased retelling of the epic.

Could only find these audiobooks:

1. Mahabharat Katha by Amritlal Nagar
2. The Mahabharata by John D Smith
3. Mahabharata: The Greatest Spiritual Epic of All Time by Krishna Dharma

Which one would you suggest I go with? Would appreciate any podcast audioseries suggestions too.

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I was listening to a podcast that had Miki Agrawal as a guest and she mentioned this part of the story from Mahabharata that I'm trying to find references for. After the war Lord Krishna told Kunti that she had been the epitome of devotion and she suffered a lot so he'd give her any boon of her choosing. Kunti replied with this: Leave me with one wound of pain because it keeps me calling to the divine. When things are going well, the divine is far away. In times of great difficulty, the divine is close by.

I can't find any references about this. Maybe Miki was talking about somebody else? Would appreciate any pointers for the source of this story.

Hi, do anyone know what were the moves played during the entire game of chaupar, is there any mention about it in Mahabharata.

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when you came to know shakuni was actually not supporting the kauravas and was actually planted to destroy the whole kuru clan.

from childhood the stories told to me were about how shakuni was evil and he was supporting the evil kauravas .

but when i actually read and came to know that shakuni was avenging for his father's and brother's death , it felt like a fantastic twist at the end of fantabulous film. i couldn't believe it at first.

Has anyone listened to some of the podcasts available on the Mahabharata? I enjoyed The Mahabharata Podcast with Arti Dhand. She retells the epic with an irreverent, entertaining style that is quite refreshing. A retelling of the story with 100 episodes is The Mahabharata Podcast by Lawrence Manzo is quite thorough, where he does an English language re-telling of the epic.

Thinking logically, Mahabharata is just another large war fought between feuding brothers over territory. This has happened many times in history and still happens. Even the scale of war is localized to the geographic area of Kurukshetra. There are many wars that spanned a much larger geographical area (world wars being the largest). The battle was fought for <20 days when there are many historic and modern wars fought over much longer periods.

If the argument is righteousness vs evil, then every war is the same. There is always an evil side and a lesser evil/good side. But even the Mahabharata in the end was fought for territory and power.

The Pandavas were just one generation of kings within the Kuru lineage. There came many kings before them and many after.

So why did we end up making a big deal out of it? What was the need for a supreme lord to incarnate for just another war? (Makes me question if Krishna was even a God or just a godlike king. Egyptian pharaohs declared themselves as God)

Can any one tell me what's written about the conception and birth of both pandavas & kauravas in Mahabharat?

who here thinks that suyodhana (duryodhana) is the true king of hastinapura?

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Rig Vedā 1.43 is a declaration as to who He is. In a single hymn, it encompasses the entirety of Rudra – that He is a Divine Contradiction and a “conscious knower”. The hymns say He is “fierce/mighty”, then in contradiction, they call him “pleasant with beneficent heart”. He is “the resort/lord to all hymns/songs”, He is “the resort/lord of all yajñá/sacrifice”, and “He is bliss”. In conclusion, the hymn addresses Rudras as the family of immortals possessing amṛta/soma and this soma is the home to Supreme Truth (ṛta**sya). So, what is this Supreme Truth? As the hymn says, it is “ṛta“, meaning the entire cosmic principle/truth. This Supreme Truth of Immortality is explained in pristine detail in Śatarudrīya/Çatarudriya of Sukla Yajur Vedā. This is the first homage to Rudra-Soma sung by Maharśi Kaṇva Ghaura in Rig Vedā Mandala 1 Sukta 43. And as we go deeper, we will see the complete assimilation of Soma, Agni, Mitra-Varuna, and more.

tavyase = mighty/strong

Shamtamam Hruday = pleasant or beneficent heart
gātha-patim = resort to all hymns/songs
medha-patim = the resort of Yajñá/Sacrifice/Oblations
śam-yoḥ sumnam = bliss/ānandam
pra-jāḥ amṛt**asya = immortals family possessing the elixir (amṛta)
parasmin dhāman ṛta**sya = home to the highest truth (ṛtasya)
Please Note: Both terms “ṛtasya” and “amṛta**sya” are synonymously used, soma is also used as its replacement occasionally.
Rig Vedā 1.43

 Thou, Oh Agni, art Rudra, the Asura of the mighty sky

Rudra, lord of the sacrifice
Kṛṣṇa Yajur Vedā Taittirīya Saṃhitā 1.3.14, 1.4.11

Thou art the beginning and thou art the end of the Vedas, thou art the Gāyatri and thou art OM. Thou art the fire upon which the sacrificial butter/ghee is poured. Thou art he who pours the ghee. Thou art he in honor of whom the ghee is poured, thou art the butter itself that is poured. Thou art those section of Brahmanas that are called Trisuparna, thou art all the Vedas, thou art the section called Śatarudrīya in the Yajushes/Yajur. Thou art holiest of holies, auspicious of auspicious things. Thou animatest the inanimate body. Thou art the Chit that dwell in the human form.

Mahābhāratam Moksha Dharma Parva Section 285