Mahabharata Themes

Mahabharata being a major Indian epic, is always been the centre of attraction for many critics from all over the world. Mahabharata is an oral epic. The principal theme of the Mahabharata, can be simply put as, the struggle for property in a joint family. Mahabharata shows the quarrel between princes - the sons of Dhritarashtra and Pandu, namely Kaurava (the descendents of King Kuru) and Pandavas (sons of Pandu), respectively - for the throne of Hastinapura. The number of works and researches has been done on Mahabharta. The epic employs the structure of frame tales i.e. story within story. Some critics say that the text is unstructured and chaotic. Hermann Oldenburg supposed that the original poem must once have carried an immense “tragic

Like Mahabharata it is a tale of intrigue and inevitable war between two families. Rajneeti also goes parallel to the Mahabharata where the shades of Krishna, Arjun, Bheema, Duryodhana, and Karan can be seen in the characters portrayed. The film basically borrows its plot from the two major epics- Mahabharata and Godfather. Not only the Indian authors and directors but people from worldwide are interested in the epic. Apart from that many other films are also there from English directors and one of the same titles released in 1989 by peter brook.

A comic adaptation is also there which is sometimes called as Amar Chitra Katha illustrated by Dilip Kadam. Many of its titles are based on the particular events of the epic. There are many popular novels which are inspired by Mahabharata. These are The Palace of Illusions (2008) by chitra Banerjee Devakaruni, the novel presents the feminist perspective of the epic in which the whole of the Mahabharata is described from the point of view of Draupadi. It tells the story of a woman living in a patriarchal world. She said my problem with Drapadi (apart from

Mahabharata is many times compared with Indian literature as well as Greek and other literatures. Mahabharata is compared to the great war of Trojans. Both are the epics of a civilization. Both The Mahabharata and The Iliad are about wars that started mainly because of kings or princes and their flawed characters. In The Iliad, the Trojan War began because Paris, a prince of Troy, stole King Menelaus’ wife, Helen. However, the war was also driven by the greed of Agamemnon, a powerful and fearsome king. Meanwhile, in The Mahabharata, the war began mostly because of Duryodhana’s jealousy of the Pandavas. The royalty of both stories have flaws in their characters that force their countries and people into war. In conjunction, the two stories both contain important moral lessons. Although The Iliad and The Mahabharata were written and set in vastly different cultures, they share many similarities such as the themes and values they possess. War is considered honorable and glorious, women are possessions, and all-powerful Gods interact with mankind. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are the two epics of India. They show some differences between them when it comes to their dates of composition, authors, characters and the like. The Ramayana was written by Sage Valmiki. On the other hand, the Mahabharata was written by Sage Vyasa. The Ramayana contains the story of Rama, the son of King Dasaratha of Ayodhya. It deals with how