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Mahabharata

(mə hä′bä′rə tə)

noun

one of the two great epics of India, written in Sanskrit about 200

Origin: Sans Mahābhārata, lit., the great story

See Mahabharata in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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.

Origin:

Origin: Sanskrit Mahābhāratam, great (telling) of the Bharatas

Origin: : mahā-, great; see meg- in Indo-European roots

Origin: + Bhāratam, of the Bharatas, descendants of the legendary Indian king Bharata

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