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  1. Sanskrit `great poem of the Bharatas'.
  2. Sanskrit Hindu epic consisting of 18 books
  3. probably composed in its present form about
  4. 300 BC. It forms with the Ramayana the two
  5. great epics of the Hindus. It deals with the
  6. fortunes of the rival families of the
  7. Kauravas and the Pandavas, and contains the
  8. Bhagavad-Gita, or Song of the Blessed, an
  9. episode in the sixth book.
  10.