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 unique Hindu world really stands epitomised in them. . . . . . . The stories, songs, and ballads ; the histories and genealogies ; the nursery tales and religious discourses ; the art, the learning, the philosophy, the creeds, the moralities, the modes of thought, the very phrases, the sayings, terms of expression and daily ideas of the Hindu people are taken from these poems." —--Sir Edwin Arnold.