The Mahabharata. "The Great Poem (or War) of the Descendents of Bharata (Mahabharata)."
"The Gita forms part of the great epic of India, the Great Poem (or War) of the Descendants of Bharata (Mahabharata), which has gathered a veritable encyclopedia around the epic story of the rivalry between the Kauravas, led by Duryodhana, and their cousins the Pandavas, led by Yudhishthira. Both houses were descended from Kuru and ultimately from the famous Vedic tribe of the Bharatas which gave India her name Bharat. The struggle culminated in the great war won by the Pandavas and their allies with the help of Krishna. Chiefly due to its numerous and elevated passages on the subjects of wisdom, duty, and liberation from mundane existence, the epic, which probably underwent its last major revision c. fourth century A.D. in the Gupta period, became sacred to later Hindus as part of the Smriti scriptures.
"When in the course of the growth of the Mahabharata, the bardic historical poem relating to the Kuru-Bharatas was being transformed into an early form of the epic, two principal processes had been in operation, namely, the bardic enlargement of the original ballad-cycle relating to the Kuru-Bharatas, and the Krishnaite redaction of the basrdic material. The Gita must indeed have served as the cornerstore of this Krishnaite superstructure. Though the Gita mainly epitomizes the teachings of Krishna, after it had been included in the epic it always was subjected, like the rest of the epic, to the final process of the Brahmanic revision."
"The Gita forms part of the great epic of India, the Great Poem (or War) of the Descendants of Bharata (Mahabharata), which has gathered a veritable encyclopedia around the epic story of the rivalry between the Kauravas, led by Duryodhana, and their cousins the Pandavas, led by Yudhishthira. Both houses were descended from Kuru and ultimately from the famous Vedic tribe of the Bharatas which gave India her name Bharat. The struggle culminated in the great war won by the Pandavas and their allies with the help of Krishna. Chiefly due to its numerous and elevated passages on the subjects of wisdom, duty, and liberation from mundane existence, the epic, which probably underwent its last major revision c. fourth century A.D. in the Gupta period, became sacred to later Hindus as part of the Smriti scriptures.
"When in the course of the growth of the Mahabharata, the bardic historical poem relating to the Kuru-Bharatas was being transformed into an early form of the epic, two principal processes had been in operation, namely, the bardic enlargement of the original ballad-cycle relating to the Kuru-Bharatas, and the Krishnaite redaction of the basrdic material. The Gita must indeed have served as the cornerstore of this Krishnaite superstructure. Though the Gita mainly epitomizes the teachings of Krishna, after it had been included in the epic it always was subjected, like the rest of the epic, to the final process of the Brahmanic revision."
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