KIDS QUIZ
WORLD HISTORY
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What is Mahabharata? Is it ____
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The world’s longest epic poem, written by Ganesha which was 2, 500 years ago.
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The story of a Great War between two sets of cousins, the five Pandavas, and the hundred Kauravas.
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A set of stories within stories, so intricately interwoven that very few people can claim and all the stories and all characters in it?
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All of these and more
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Bhagavad Gita comprises 18 chapters (section 23 to 40) in the Bhishma Parva of the epic Mahabharata. Because of differences in recensions, the verses of the Gita may be numbered in the full text of the Mahabharata as chapters 6.25–42 or as chapters 6.23–40.
Detailed explanation-2: -The title may be translated as “Great India", or “the great tale of the Bharata Dynasty", according to the Mahabharata’s own testimony extended from a shorter version simply called Bhārata of 24, 000 verses The epic is part of the Hindu itihāsas, literally “that which happened", along with the Ramayana and the Purāṇas.
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