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What was the language during Mahabharata?
Sanskrit
| Mahabharata | |
|---|---|
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Author | Vyasa |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| Verses | 200,000 |
What language was spoken by Krishna?
Present day Indian languages which covers most of the places where Lord Rama and Lord Krishna lived are Hindi, Bhojpuri, Bengali , Marathi, Oriya etc. All these languages have a common ancestry which is Sanskrit. Also, Sanskrit is always regarded as the language of Hindu Holy Scriptures.
Where did the Mahabharata come from?
Some elements of the present Mahābhārata can be traced back to Vedic times. The background to the Mahābhārata suggests the origin of the epic occurs “after the very early Vedic period ” and before “the first Indian ’empire’ was to rise in the third century B.C.” That this is “a date not too far removed from the 8th or 9th century B.C.” is likely.
How many lines are in the Mahabharata?
Its longest version consists of over 100,000 śloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. At about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Rāmāyaṇa.
Did Ganesha write the Mahabharata?
The first section of the Mahābhārata states that it was Ganesha who wrote down the text to Vyasa’s dictation, but this is regarded by scholars as a later interpolation to the epic and the “Critical Edition” doesn’t include Ganesha at all.
For a Muslim, it is yes (Because Muslims believe that the first human Adam was a Muslim prophet). For others it is no (Because Islam was founded in 7th century. Ramayana and Mahabharata are older than that).