"Mahabharata"

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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.

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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 ..."

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