महाभारत — {bhārata} m. or n. (with or scil. {āhava}, {yuddha} or any word signifying 'battle') the great war of the Bharatas##n. (with or scil. {ākhyāna}), 'great narrative of the war of the Bharatas', N. of the great epic poem in about 215, 000 lines describing the acts and contests of the sons of the two brothers Dhṛitarāshṭra and Pāṇḍu, descendants of Bharata, who were of the lunar line of kings reigning in the neighbourhood of Hastinā-pura (the poem consists of 18 books with a supplement called Hari-vaṃśa, the whole being attributed to the sage Vyāsa) &c. (cf. IW. 370 &c.)##{-kūṭôddāra} m. {-tātparya} n. ({parya-nirṇaya} m. and {ya-pramāṇa-saṃgraha} m. {parya-prakāśa-saṃketa} m. {parya-rakṣā} f. {parya-saṃgraha}, m.), {-darpaṇa} m. {-pañcaratna} n. pl., {-mañjarī} f. {-mīmāṃsā} f. {-vivaraṇastotra} n. {-vyākhyāna} n. {-śravaṇa-vidhi} m. {-ślokôpanyāsa} m. {-saṃgraha} m. and {ha-dīpikā} f. {-saptati-śloka} m. pl., {-samuccaya} m. {-sāra} m. n. {-sāra-saṃgraha} (?), m. {-sūci} f. {-sphuṭa-śloka} m. pl., {ratâdi-śloka} m. pl., {ratâdhyāyânukramaṇī} f. {ratôddhṛta-sāra-śloka} m. pl. N. of wks
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