Canonical Text In Mahabharata

In increasingly global and multicultural world, in which we live, the role of translation is also increasing to critically analysis our material practice and as cultural phenomena. The cross-cultural and linguistic relation has occurred in late 20th and early 21st centuries has generated, so as result, we can see an increased need for communication across boundaries.
Since 1980s translation as a practice and as a theory has become central to comparative literature. In early period, scholars used to emphasise that any literary text should be read in its original. But with the change in time we find that the canonical text has expended to include many non-European literatures, so the necessity of using translation in research as well in teaching

The Mahabharata is a great mythological book of Hindu religion. Myths are the stories that are based on tradition. ‘Myth’ is derived from the Greek word “MYTHOS” which means story or word. Myths are symbolic tales of the distant past that concern cosmology and cosmogony. They are sacred tales that explains the world and man’s experience. It is a religious story which involves the existence and activities of a supernatural being such as a god, a goddess and several such entities. In life we can find a stage when human beings are not able to come out of their greed and violence, at that time a sacred force has to appear to save the world and human beings. This idea is very relevant in present age when the people of the world are fearful about their existence because of nuclear power and its power of distraction.
The great Mahabharata war, the central even in Andha Yug takes place in the cusp of the fourth Yug when the Dwapara Yug is ending the decline of morality and goodness foreshadows the arrival of the Kali Yug the period in which we now live. The Mahabharata itself was a dharamyudha. The immediate reason is the sudden death of Pandu which raises the question about the future king of