Adi Parva

Adi Parva

Mahabharta Book 1 Adi-parvan (The Book of the Beginning) is a book about how the Mahabharata came to be narrated by Sauti to the assembled rishis at Naimisharanya. The recital of the Mahabharata at the Sarpasatra of Janamejaya by Vaishampayana at Takṣaśilā. The history of the Bharata race is told in detail and the parvan also traces history of the Bhrigu race. The birth and early life of the Kuru princes.

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* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m01/index.htm Translation] by Kisari Mohan Ganguli.


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