The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. The authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to the great sage Veda Vyasa (Krsna Dvaipaya. Longest epic of the world one hundred thousand verses, long prose passages, or about 1.8 million words in total roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined or about four times the length of the Ramayana. Called Mahabharata due to the immense size and its dealing with the story of the people of the race descended from the ancient emperor Bharata
