Traditionally, the Mahabharata is ascribed to Vyasa. The title may be translated as "Great India", or "the great tale of the Bharata Dynasty", according to the Mahabharata's own testimony extended from a shorter version simply called Bhārata of 24,000 verses The epic is part of the Hindu itihāsas, literally "that which happened", along with the Ramayana and the Purāṇas. It is also of immense religious and philosophical importance in India, in particular for including the Bhagavad Gita, an important text of Hinduism. Taken together with the Harivamsa, the Mahabharata has a total length of more than 90,000 verses. With more than 74,000 verses, plus long prose passages, or some 1.8 million words in total, it is one of the longest epic poems in the world. The Mahābhārata ( Devanagari: महाभारत), is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa. Manuscript illustration of the Battle of Kurukshetra
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