The year in incognito spent at the court of Virata. The twelve years of exile in the forest ( aranya). Vana Parva also Aranyaka-parva, Aranya-parva (The Book of the Forest) Life at the court, Yudhishthira’s Rajasuya Yajna, the game of dice, and the eventual exile of the Pandavas. Maya Danava erects the palace and court ( sabha), at Indraprastha. Sabha Parva (The Book of the Assembly Hall) The birth and early life of the Kuru princes. The history of the Bharata race is told in detail and the parva also traces history of the Bhrigu race. The recital of the Mahabharata at the sarpasattra of Janamejaya by Vaishampayana at Taksaśilā. How the Mahabharata came to be narrated by Sauti to the assembled rishis at Naimisharanya. The Mahabharata has been written in eighteen books, called parvas. It is centered around the central theme of Dharma, and contains devotional and philosophical content. The Mahabharata, meaning the great battle, narrates the epic Kurukshetra war and the fates of Pandava and Kaurava princes. Consisting of about 1.8 million words, the Mahabharata is almost 4 times longer than the Ramayana. It is written by Veda Vyasa, in Sanskrit. The story spans over 100000 shlokas, or over 200000 verses, as each shloka is a couplet. Mahabharata is one of the greatest written Hindu epic of all times.
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