3 Life Lessons from The Mahabharata
8 min readAug 3, 2020
The Mahabharata, one of the two major ancient Indian Sanskrit epics alongside the Ramayana, is often known as the “the longest poem ever written”. Written by the sage Vyasa, at approximately 1.8 million words divided among 18 parvas, or books (yes, 18 books), central to the epic poem is the Kurukshetra War, an 18-day battle between two groups of cousins, the Kauravas and Pandavas.
