Mahabharata
Arjuna is an important character a
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Arjuna is an important character and presence in the Indian epic the Mahabharata, and he is a member of the main family whose actions serve as the centerpiece of this epic. The Mahabharata is the oldest of the great epics of Hindu literature and is the longest poem ever written, with 100,000 stanzas arranged in 18 books. The work is actually a compilation of material from a number of sources from different periods, and there may have been earlier versions of varying lengths. There is no single version of the work today because not all of it has been translated and released, and the text is under restoration at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Poona, India, with successive portions of the text having been edited and published from there since 1927. The work in its present form dates from about the year 400 and is made up of a mass of legendary and wisdom material worked around a central narrative concerning the struggle for power between two related families. Within this larger work is the famous "Bhagavad Gita," or "The Lord's Song," standing as the single most significant religious text of Hinduism. This poem was written as a dialogue between the warrior prince Arjuna and his friend, charioteer, and mentor Krishna, an incarnation of the black god Vishnu, and while the poem has the basic form of a war story, it expands beyond this to consider the nature of God and how He can be known. Hinduism is one of the oldest religions in the world
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o singular line of purpose, either. Even the author of the Indian epic sought to remain anonymous. Within the epic, there would be shifts in time and place, point of view, subject, and other elements, all without a clear line of development:
Part was inevitably inconsistent with part, and there was little attempt, beyond an occasional clumsy bit of reconciliation, to make the liaison smooth. In one description, for example, it is plain that we are living in days of the most brutal barbarism, and amid social conditions where even polyandry is recognized; then we come upon long accounts of rules of warfare laid down such as might emanate from a Hague Court or a Geneva Conference.
However, Arjuna has a sort of presence from the first because the epic begins with the snake sacrifice of King Janamejaya, identified as the great-grandson of Arjuna. Two friends meet in the forest and discuss this sacrifice, since one of them has just returned from seeing it and from hearing the Mahabharata. This passage also details the legend of the writing of this epic by Vyasa, said to have been written by the poet over a three-year period, first in his mind, then set down by a scribe and the elephant-god Ganesha. Vyasa fathers three sons
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