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Mahābhārata

महाभारत (Mahābhārata)

Vyāsa y sus discípulos ven llegar a Śuka (Razmnāma)
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The longest epic in world literature, a 'collection of a hundred thousand stanzas' in eighteen books, with the Harivaṃśa as a supplement. It narrates the rivalry between the Kauravas and their cousins the Pāṇḍavas for the kingdom of Hastināpura, the dice game, the exile and the eighteen-day war at Kurukṣetra, with its aftermath. It includes the Bhagavad Gītā and numerous tales and treatises on dharma, politics and liberation, and regards itself as a 'fifth Veda'.

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Authorship note

The poem presents itself as the work of Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa, who appears in it as author, narrator and character. Philology regards it as a collective work: growth over several centuries between the fourth century BCE and the fourth CE (Brockington), or written composition in the second–first centuries BCE followed by enlargements (Hiltebeitel, Fitzgerald). Vyāsa is an author figure built by the text.

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Mahabharata (10 vols.)

    Penguin Books India, 2010

    Translation: Bibek Debroy

    ISBN 9780143100133

    Traducción íntegra de la edición crítica; ISBN del vol. 1.

  • The Mahābhārata (versión abreviada) — Vyasa

    The Mahābhārata (versión abreviada)

    Penguin Classics, 2009

    Translation: John D. Smith

    ISBN 9780140446814

  • The Mahābhārata, Volume 7: Book 11 and Book 12, Part One — Vyasa

    The Mahābhārata, Volume 7: Book 11 and Book 12, Part One

    University of Chicago Press, 2004

    Translation: James L. Fitzgerald

    ISBN 9780226252506

  • The Mahabharata, Volume 1: Book 1, The Book of the Beginning — Vyasa

    The Mahabharata, Volume 1: Book 1, The Book of the Beginning

    University of Chicago Press, 1980

    Translation: J. A. B. van Buitenen

    ISBN 9780226846637

    Primera edición 1973.

  • The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa (12 vols.)

    Bharata Press (P. C. Roy), Calcuta, 1883

    Translation: Kisari Mohan Ganguli

    1883–1896; dominio público.

Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्

  • The Mahābhārata for the First Time Critically Edited (19 vols.)

    Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, 1933

    Ed. V. S. Sukthankar et al., 1933–1966 (trabajos desde 1919).

Français

  • Le Mahābhārata (2 vols.) — Vyasa

    Le Mahābhārata (2 vols.)

    Seuil, 2002

    Translation: Madeleine Biardeau

    ISBN 9782020532105

    Relato y comentario de la edición crítica.

Español

  • Mahabharata — Vyasa

    Mahabharata

    Kairós, 2007

    Translation: Ángel Gurría Quintana

    ISBN 9788472455399

    Versión narrativa abreviada de R. K. Narayan, no traducción del original.

Other works by Vyasa

Sources

  • Hiltebeitel, Alf. Rethinking the Mahābhārata: A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001 (caps. 1–2, sobre Vyāsa como autor y la fecha de composición).

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