The great Mahabharata War is supposed to have taken place in the year 3139 BC at Kurukshetra, India, according to one set of research scholars. Another set placed it between 950 BC and 1500 BC. It is the biggest classic ever composed by humanity, several times more than the Illiad and the Odyssey of the Poet Homer.
The Sage Veda Vyasa wrote the original version in the Sanskrit language. It was written in 18 volumes, containing more than 1 lakhs verses of four lines each. It is one of the great epic stories that stood the test of the time over centuries like another great epic Ramayana.
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he really padded it out, did Vyasa, the longest classic; several times longer than Homer.