Literature allows us to experience and learn from the human condition in ways we cannot in real life. It serves as a record of historical events and experiences from the places where they originated. The Mahabharata is an epic Sanskrit poem composed between 400 BC and 400 AD that is considered the largest literary work in existence. It recounts a legendary war between two groups of cousins claiming rulership over a kingdom, providing context and background for the epic's beginning.
Literature allows us to experience and learn from the human condition in ways we cannot in real life. It serves as a record of historical events and experiences from the places where they originated. The Mahabharata is an epic Sanskrit poem composed between 400 BC and 400 AD that is considered the largest literary work in existence. It recounts a legendary war between two groups of cousins claiming rulership over a kingdom, providing context and background for the epic's beginning.
Literature allows us to experience and learn from the human condition in ways we cannot in real life. It serves as a record of historical events and experiences from the places where they originated. The Mahabharata is an epic Sanskrit poem composed between 400 BC and 400 AD that is considered the largest literary work in existence. It recounts a legendary war between two groups of cousins claiming rulership over a kingdom, providing context and background for the epic's beginning.
Literature allows us to experience and learn from the human condition in ways we cannot in real life. It serves as a record of historical events and experiences from the places where they originated. The Mahabharata is an epic Sanskrit poem composed between 400 BC and 400 AD that is considered the largest literary work in existence. It recounts a legendary war between two groups of cousins claiming rulership over a kingdom, providing context and background for the epic's beginning.
Literature teaches us of many things about the human experience.
It is used to portray the facets of life that we see, and those that we would never dream of seeing. Literature therefore, is a conduct for the chance to experience and feel things where we can learn things about life.HISTORICAL FUNCTIONAncient texts, illuminated scripts, stone tablets etc. keeps a record of events that happened in the place where they originated. Thus, they serve as time capsules of letters that are studies by scholars and researchers of today.THE SUMMARY OF MAHABHARATAThe Mahabharata is an epic that comprises one hundred thousand stanzas of verse divided into eighteenbooks, or parvas. It is the largest single literary work in existence. Originally composed in the ancient language of Sanskrit sometime between 400 BC and 400 AD, it is set in a legendary era thought to correspond to the period of Indian culture and history in approximately the tenth century BC. The original “author” was Vyasa who tried to tell about the Great War between the Pandavas and the Kauravas - cousins who claimed to be the rightful rulers of a kingdom. The background to get to where the epic starts is very confusing (in medias res). I’ll present the background a bit here just to lay the groundwork