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The purpose of this site is to provide resources on the Great Itihasa, Mahabharata.

Jaya - Siddhinathananda Swami
Explains the meaning of Jaya, the other name of Mahabharata, its connection with Sacrifice via the number eighteen which pervades Mahabharata.

Sanskrit Recensions and Editions of the Mahabharata

• Introduction to Mahabharata by Dr. P. Lal
  Read this article in French, Malayalam
  

• Annotated Bibliographies on Mahabharata
  • By Dr. P. Lal (Published by Writers Workshop, 1967)
  • By Dr. Pradip Bhattacharya
  • French Bibliography commented by Dr. Guy Vincent
  • List of Recent Russian Publications on Sanskrit Epics and Puranas compiled by Dr. Yaroslav Vassilkov

• Electronic Texts of Mahabharata
  • Critical Edition of Mahabharata
    (Electronic text of Mahabharata (Critical Edition) available from here thanks to Dr. Muneo Tokunaga and Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute and Dr. John Smith)
    

    Vyasa Mahabharata (all eighteen Parvas) (CE) in Devanagari is available also here .

  • Anugita
    1. English Translation by Kashinath Trimbak Telang

    2. English Translation by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

    3. Anugita, an expose on samkhya and yoga doctrines in the Mahabharata - Guy Vincent (Translated by Gilles Schaufulberger)

  • Benedictory Verses in manuscripts
    English Translation by Satya Chaitanya

  • Selections from Southern Recensions of Mahabharata

  • Mahabharata Commentaries

  • English Translation by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
    (Downloadable electronic text available at www.sacred-texts.com)

    Chapterwise table of contents of the Ganguli translation (45 pages). Prepared by Duncan Watson.

• Harivamsa (On-going Project) To Harivamsa Resources Page
  
  • Text of Harivamsa (Sanskrit text follows that edited by Pandit Ramachandrashastri Kinjawadekar and published by the chitrasala press in 1936. Text in itrans prepared by K.S. Ramachandran and Gilles Shchhaufelberger.
    English Translation of Harivamsha Parva by Desiraju Hanumanta Rao.

  • Selections from Vishnu Parva of Southern Recension
  • Sheshadharamaprakaranam
    The Appendix II of the Critical Edition of the BORI Harivamsa contains a section called Sheshadharmaprakaranam found in a few manuscripts of Harivamsa and in a few independent manuscripts.
    Text in itrans prepared by A. Purushothaman.

  • Scanned texts of Harivamsa with Nilakantha commentary available on the internet

• Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya
  • Mahabharata-Tatparya-Nirnaya by Acharya Madhva - A critical edition of the oldest datable commentary on the Mahabharata.
  • Table of Contents of Mahabharata-Tatparya-Nirnaya.
    

  • English summary of Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya of Madhvacharya by Prof. K.T. Pandurangi.
    1. Part 1
    2. Part 2
    3. Part 3
    4. Part 4

  • English Translation of Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya
    Chapters 1-9 by B. Gururajah Rao
    Chapters 10-16 by by Desiraju Hanumanta Rao
    Chapters 17 by Harshala Rajesh based on the Kannada translation by R.H. Kulkarni
    Chapters 18 onwards by Harshala Rajesh based on the Kannada translation, explanation and special notes by Dr. Vyasanakere Prabhanjanacharya
    
  • Audio archival of a discourse (140 hrs) on Mahabharata in Kannada by Dr. Vyasanakere Prabhanjanacharya based on Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya is available at http://www.vyasamadhwa.org/upanyasa/Mahabharata