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| INDIA AND HINDUISM IN THE
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The Mahabharata
of 1000,000 verses dates from at least two thousand years ago, though portions of it are
much older, and its story goes back perhaps more than thirty-five hundred years. A version
of it was noted in the Tamil Nadu region of South India as early as the first century BC.
Mahabharata literally means "Great India" as Bharata is the traditional name for
India.
The Mahabharata presents peoples from the entire subcontinent of India. The story centers
on the conflict between the Kauravas and Pandavas, who were members of the same ruling
family of the Kuru-Panchala kingdom which extended through the Ganges-Yamuna region. The
mother of the Kauravas was Gandhari of Gandhara, which is now Pakistan and northeast
Afghanistan. |
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