WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Mahabharata is one of the longest epic poems ever written. It has over 200, 000 verse lines, 1.8 million words and it is believed that it could have taken over 600 years to write!

Detailed explanation-2: -Intro. Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest. It tells the breathtaking story of a struggle between the hero, Beowulf, and a bloodthirsty monster called Grendel.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Mahābhārata is the longest poem in history, with about 100, 000 couplets, more than seven times the size of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey combined. Its characters go back to around 1000 bc, but in its present form the epic could not have been composed before 400 bc.

Detailed explanation-4: -No wonder the Mahabharata is the longest known epic poem and has been regarded as the longest poem ever written, with a length almost seven times that of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey combined. The epic is divided into eighteen sections and contains over 110, 000 couplets.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Bhagavad Gita is part of the Mahabharata, the world’s longest poem with more than 3 million words written 2000 years ago.