King Santanu - Queen Satyabati 2 Notable interpolations of Mahabharata

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DHRUTARASTRA >BHAGAVAD - GITA (divine song) - a long didactic
> blind from his birth poem in which Krishna discuss philosophy and the
> his sons are known as "KAURAVAS" as the good life with Ajurna
descendants of the former king of the dynasty named >NALA and DAMAYANTI ( loves story) - concerning
"KUNI" conjugal patience and fidelity
> DURYODHAN was the first among the sons of
Dhrutarastra RISHIS -holymen who tell stories of allegorical
significance
PANDU's sons
> Yudnisthir DRAUPADI - a charming heroine
>Bhima
>Arjuna
>Nakula
>Sahader

India and Bharat > official names of the country India

Bharat Varsha > the old name of India
Hind > the name of India during the medieval period

VEDAS - books of knowledge (1,028 hymns)

THE FOUR VEDAS

>RIGVEDA - vedic sanskrit hymns

>SAMAVEDA - melodies and chants, liturgies
>YAJURVEDA(Prayer book) - prose mantras
>ATHARVAVEDA (Book of Spells) - procedure of
everyday life ; demonology and witchcraft

BRAHMANAS - commentaries on the vedic hymns and

religious rites ; the earliest extant pieces of Indo-
European prose.

UPANISHADS - collection of 108 discourse pf

Brahman religion
MAYA (illusory world)
NIRVANA ( absorption into the universal soul)
SUTRAS - unintelligible treatises concerning ritual

DIFFERENT EPICS

>MAHABHARATA - longest poem in the world ;

collection of epics. (18 Books) (200,000 lines)
>RAMAYANA - story of Rama and his wife Sita
(7 books) (96,000 lines)