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mentions that the name of the book is Jaya ("victory"), even though the book is now called Mahabharata. Scholarly estimates are that the epic had about 10,000 stanzas when it was first composed (by Vyasa?). It was orally transmitted for several centuries, making it easy for anyone to add a few lines here, remove/modify a few lines there.
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article. To my disappointment, this article has been tagged for a while, with "This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2007) (Learn how and when to
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You don't say if treaties such as Artashastra, the Dharmashastras (and particularly the Manava Dharmashastra), the Kamasutra and the Karmashastra, are written in Sanskrit, and you don't say for how long inscriptions and juridical texts (statutes, bills, contracts) have been written in Sanskrit: I
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Traditionally, authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to the sage Vyasa. However, Vyasa's historical veracity cannot be verified by independent sources. Also, it is clear that the Mahabharata was not written by any single person at any single time. Indeed, the first stanza of the Mahabharata
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Edited this part. This sentence makes you feel as if Mahabharata is a philosophical work which is not true. Gita, YakshPrashna, Bhisma and Yudhishithira's comments about ethics are some of the verses that can be termed Philosophy but that is not major part considering the total number of verses.
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If any editor/talk page watcher has the time and interest to update this article, please do. Five potential sources, along with the first 12 cited in the article: Anne Kessler-Persaud (2010), Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol II, pp. 3-18; Sures Chandra Banerji (1989),
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treatment. I have also taken out Ohashi et al for now, as the summary looks misrepresented. I have left the last section in, for now, as it has sources but these too need verification checks and a review for notability / WP:DUE / NPOV etc.
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Theatre as an art is almost certainly indigenous to India. There was possibly an influence from Hellenistic Greece during the expansion under Alexander the Great, but it was an influence on an existing form of theatre.
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21:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC) I have editted that line out, I believe it is scandalous without any proper citation to back up the claims of people "doctoring" the Mahabharata as it was passed down.
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text was subsequently expanded, quadrupling in size over the time of four centuries or so reaching its zenith of philosophical sophistication in the seminal work of the Hindu religion, the
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It would be informative if the various mentions of written Sanskrit would state what writing systems were used in those instances. At a general level, there is some relevant info at
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If the former, the inclusion seem unnecessary. If the latter, it needs to be spelled out. Wondering if we would not be better off simply renaming the article
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I contest the claims that "a few lines were added here and removed there", as there is no proper citation as to any proof or analysis in the first place.
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can anyone email me at : cricketvideos@hotmail.com i am seeking the translation of the name singh into sanskrit. thank you
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Singh transliterated usually as सिंग in Devnagari is dervied from sanskrit word simha सिंह meaning lion
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title would be much better for this article. The "Vedic and" seems repetitive,
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A History of Indian Literature: Classical Sanskrit literature
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Could someone proof that, because - i don't think so. --
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