Bellum ad Kurukṣetram in libro manuscripto Mahabharati pictumNarratio in Mahabharato: Sanjayus de proelio Kurukṣetrae regi Dhṛtaraṣtro narrat. Quod Dhṛtaraṣtrus caecus est, dei Sanjayo visionem praeter naturam dant ut proelium videat. Imago picta saeculo 19 ineunte.
Mahabharatum, sicut Iliasgraeca, non per scriptum sed per canendum a poetis compositum est, inter annos 300 a.C.n. et 300 p.C.n., plus minusve. In libro ipso, poeta Vyāsus nomine est auctor carminis, qui id deo Ganeśo dictat.[2] Non autem narrator est: de Vyāso narrat vates quidem, Sauti nomine, qui primus narrator est. Sauti fabulam audivit, abhinc multos annos, cum Vaisampayanus eam regi Janamejayo narrabat; Sauti narrationem Vaisampayani reddit.
Dhṛtarastrus vestimenta Draupadis removere conatur; Kṛṣṇus autem eam protegit. Imago anno fere 1765 picta, fortasse a Nainsukh.
Quinque fratres, filii regis Pandu, cum centum patruelibus, filiis Dhṛtarastri, certant. Dhṛtarastrus, quamquam maior natu illo Pandu, caecus est, ergo non potest regere. Filius eius Duryodhanus vult regnum habere, quod maximus natu est filius fratris maioris regis. Yudhistirus autem, maximus filius regis Pandu, censet se regnum hereditate e patre accipere debere. Post bellum maximum, Yudhistirus rex fit.
liber
titulus
divisiones
insunt
1
Adiparva
1–19
Prolegomena; origo iuventusque principum
2
Sabhaparva
20–28
Vita regalis; ludus tesserarum; exsilium Pandavarum; aedificatio palatii (sabha) apud Indraprastham
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