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Mahabharata

The Mahabharata complete in Kisari Mohan Ganguli's English translation — all eighteen books of the great epic of the house of Bharata.

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The Mahabharata, Book 1 — Adi Parva — GanguliThe complete Adi Parva (Book 1) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation, with his Translator's Preface.The Mahabharata, Book 2 — Sabha Parva — GanguliThe complete Sabha Parva (Book 2) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation, ending in the dice game that drives the epic to war.The Mahabharata, Book 3 — Vana Parva — GanguliThe complete Vana Parva (Book 3) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation — the epic's longest book, covering the Pandavas' twelve years of forest exile.The Mahabharata, Book 4 — Virata Parva — GanguliThe complete Virata Parva (Book 4) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation, covering the Pandavas' thirteenth year of hidden exile at King Virata's court.The Mahabharata, Book 5 — Udyoga Parva — GanguliThe complete Udyoga Parva (Book 5) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation, covering the failed embassies for peace and the muster of armies before the war.The Mahabharata, Book 6 — Bhishma Parva — GanguliThe complete Bhishma Parva (Book 6) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation, containing the epic's own telling of the Bhagavad Gita and the first ten days of the war at Kurukshetra.The Mahabharata, Book 7 — Drona Parva — GanguliThe complete Drona Parva (Book 7) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation, covering Drona's five days as Kaurava commander and the deaths of Abhimanyu, Jayadratha, Ghatotkacha, and Drona himself.The Mahabharata, Book 8 — Karna Parva — GanguliThe complete Karna Parva (Book 8) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation, covering Karna's two days as Kaurava commander and his death at Arjuna's hands.The Mahabharata, Book 9 — Shalya Parva — GanguliThe complete Shalya Parva (Book 9) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation, covering Shalya's brief command, his death at Yudhishthira's hands, and Duryodhana's death in his club duel with Bhima.The Mahabharata, Book 10 — Sauptika Parva — GanguliThe complete Sauptika Parva (Book 10) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation — the night slaughter of the sleeping Pandava camp and its aftermath.The Mahabharata, Book 11 — Stri Parva — GanguliThe complete Stri Parva (Book 11) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation — the women's lament over the dead of Kurukshetra and the funeral rites that follow.The Mahabharata, Book 12 — Santi Parva — GanguliThe complete Santi Parva (Book 12) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation — the epic's longest book, Bhishma's dying instruction to Yudhishthira on kingship, crisis, and liberation.The Mahabharata, Book 13 — Anusasana Parva — GanguliThe complete Anusasana Parva (Book 13) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation, Bhishma's deathbed discourse on gift-giving and caste duty, closing with his death.The Mahabharata, Book 14 — Aswamedha Parva — GanguliThe complete Aswamedha Parva (Book 14) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation, spanning the Anugita, the tale of Utanka, and Yudhishthira's horse sacrifice.The Mahabharata, Book 15 — Asramavasika Parva — GanguliThe complete Asramavasika Parva (Book 15) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation, covering the Kuru elders' forest retirement and their deaths.The Mahabharata, Book 16 — Mausala Parva — GanguliThe complete Mausala Parva (Book 16) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation — one of the shortest books, recounting the self-destruction of the Vrishni clan at Dwaraka and the deaths of Krishna and Balarama.The Mahabharata, Book 17 — Mahaprasthanika Parva — GanguliThe complete Mahaprasthanika Parva (Book 17) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation — the shortest of the eighteen books, following the Pandavas and Draupadi on their final journey into the Himalayas.The Mahabharata, Book 18 — Svargarohanika Parva — GanguliThe complete Svargarohanika Parva (Book 18) of the Mahabharata, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1883–1896 English prose translation — the epic's closing book, in which Yudhishthira is tested by a vision of Hell before all its heroes take their place among the gods.