Mahabharata Condensed in the Poet's Own Words /2

These most remarkable poems
contain almost all the history of
ancient India, so far as it can be
recovered; together with such
inexhaustible details of its political,,
social and religious life, that the
social and religious life, that the unique Hindu world really stands
epitomised in them.
epitomised in them. . . . . . . The
 
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stories, songs, and ballads ; the histories.
and genealogies and genealogies ; the nursery tales and
religious discourses ; the art, the
learning, the philosophy, the creeds, the
moralities, the modes of thought,
the
 
sa moralities, the modes of thought, veryings, terms
and dail phrases, the say ideas of
ings, terms of expression and daily ideas of the Hindu people are taken from
these poems."- —Sir Edwin Arnold.
 
very phrases,
of expression
the Hindu people