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- Title
Oral Stories Related to Mahabharata.
- Authors
Parimalagantham, A.
- Abstract
Ramayana and Mahabharata are two great epics of the subcontinent of India. Over the generations, these are narrated orally also. Janamejaya, the successor of the Gaurava vamsa (Arjuna's great grandson) asked the sage to tell the story of his predecessors while he was doing the yagna for snakes. So, Vaisampaayanar told the story in the presence of the great Sage Vyasa. Vyasa dictated the story and Lord Ganesha wrote it with one of his tusks. It was in Sanskrit. The stories were written in other Indian languages also. Each Indian language has added some of the incidents according to their culture. So the great epics Ramayana and Mahabharatha have many interpolations in them. Though Ramayana and Mahabharata have written editions, still there are many stories in oral literature not yet entered in the written version. This paper aims at describing some of the incidents which are related to Mahabharata, but not included in the written literature and still remain part of the oral tradition.
- Subjects
MAHABHARATA; RAMAYANA; VYASA (Philosopher); GANESA (Hindu deity); HINDU gods; INDIC languages
- Publication
Language in India, 2014, Vol 14, Issue 10, p245
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article