The original book ‘Jay’ was containing 8,800 Shloks. Vaishanpan’s ‘Bharat’ contains 44,000 Shloks and Southee’s ‘Mahabharat’ contains 96,836 Shloks. Original Book ‘Jay’ contains the battle of Kourava and Pandava. Vaishanpan added the advisory content to his edition and Southee had added the mythical stories.
This how the ‘Jay’ became ‘Bharat’ and ‘Bharat’ became ‘Mahabharat’.
Monday, March 23, 2009
The Story of Mahabharat
It was impossible to find out when Mahabharat was created, but we can try to find out the creation time of the Mahabharat. There were three editions of Mahabharat. Each and every edition had a different writer, title and content. The original Mahabharat was titled ‘Jay’ written by Vyas. Second edition was titled by ‘Bharat’ written by Vaishanpan the assistant of the Vyas. The second edition was not only written by Vaishapan. Vyas was having four other assistant Sumanthu, Jaimanee, Pail and Shuk. These four asistent had created their own edition of ‘Bharat’. Vaishanpan had merged these four edition together and created one own edition. It was edited by Southee. Southee had recreated the Vaishanpan’s new edition and titled as ‘Mahabharat’. This book was bigger in size and matter but ‘Jay’ which was written by Vyas was smaller than ‘Mahabharat’.
Tushar Ingle
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