one of the two great epics of India, written in Sanskrit about 200
See Mahabharata in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(mäˌhə-bäˈrə-tə)
noun
A Sanskrit epic principally concerning the dynastic struggle and civil war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas in the kingdom of Kurukshetra about the 9th century B.C., and containing the text of the Bhagavad-Gita, numerous subplots, and interpolations on theology, morals, and statecraft.