Yes hearing can also be study but in adivansantra parv it is mention that mahabharat was read as well hear also
It is said by vaishampayene
That ved vyas composed mahabharat in three years and then he read for others
It says ved vyas reading mahabharat for other that means ved vyas wrote mahabharat
It is said who ever read or heard mahabharat will get free from sin
I think these parts of what will happen if you read were either added later or have been interpreted wrongly. Maybe, these lines were added WHEN they were written down.
Paath might also mean reciting, especially if its complement is translated to listening.
I'm not saying ke 100% it wasn't written down. Just that, the earliest form of writing were on stone slabs, like those Indus Valley slabs. Who knows maybe, the Indus Valley slabs might have something to do with MB or Ramayana. We'll know when they're deciphered. 😃
It can also happen that who have listen mahabharat from vaishampayene or vedyas they also wrote it down
Like in higher class like when teacher give lecture about subject then at time students do listen to teacher as well write down also
Like repoter listen answer also and also write it down for future record
Hanuman ji did write shree ram on stone when when nal neel throwing stone on sea
And apart from writing and oral there is another way of communication that is painting, drawing and I think painting drawing must be there in dwapar yug as Lord krishnha know painting even making statue was also way of communication
I believe exactly that only happened, only a few generations down the line. I mean not Vaishampayana maybe...somewhere down the line of HIS students did someone write it for the first time.
In ellora and ajanta caves there are many description of religious text including ramayan mahabharat through shilpkaari
Originally posted by: proteeti
But study toh sunke bhi we can do na. Studying can also be done by reciting over and over. I think they call it Shruti. 😳
There might've been written documents before the earliest found ones also na.
Maybe, for the earliest manuscripts they hadn't figured out how to preserve it. Ya phir, they didn't think it was that important to preserve.
Not just that. The invaders burnt our libraries. There were umpteen number of books that we lost. Maybe those included something from those early days as well
Originally posted by: proteeti
I believe exactly that only happened, only a few generations down the line. I mean not Vaishampayana maybe...somewhere down the line of HIS students did someone write it for the first time.
Had someone written it that early, there wouldn't have been so much interpolation. But we know that 6000 verse Jaya of Mahabharata has been interpolated many times to become 100000 verse Mahabharata.
Not sure but I read somewhere that Raja Bhoja had once made a statement that at his father's time there were only 18000 Shlokas in Mahabharata and they increased to 25000 by the time of Bhoja himself
Originally posted by: surabhi01
In ellora and ajanta caves there are many description of religious text including ramayan mahabharat through shilpkaari
Yes but Ellora is somewhere in AD700, Ajanta is 200BC-AD100. Both were created at the middle (Ajanta) and end (Ellora) of the Jain-Buddhist era. Us time se pehle MB had been written down.
Ajanta does have a few per-historic carvings, but Ellora has full-fledged King-patronized MB/Ramayan versions.
Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism
Not just that. The invaders burnt our libraries. There were umpteen number of books that we lost. Maybe those included something from those early days as well
Might be. Totally possible.
This is just my personal inference, might be far from reality.
We might get something of the MB era if we can decipher Indus Valley. The Shiva seal they found it's widely regarded as the Pashupati seal. And we know Arjun receive Paashupat-astra only. Who knows if they were talking about that incident only? Again I don't know. Just, it might be! 😳
Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism
Had someone written it that early, there wouldn't have been so much interpolation. But we know that 6000 verse Jaya of Mahabharata has been interpolated many times to become 100000 verse Mahabharata.
Not sure but I read somewhere that Raja Bhoja had once made a statement that at his father's time there were only 18000 Shlokas in Mahabharata and they increased to 25000 by the time of Bhoja himself
Obviously. Do you have link to Raja Bhoja's thing? I also read it somewhere. 
And it's quite understandable. The storytellers went from country to country narrating their story. They had to be careful about the people's and the royal sntiments of that area. Also, time constraints. It's obvious they would modify their stories from place to place to ensure better reception.
Some of the those modifications might've been well-received, so the storyteller kept it in his narrative and that version was carried on as the original.
I agree infact during nalanda burning only about 90 lakh books were burnt and the invaders came from about 11th century and these people burnt so many more places too 😠ðŸ˜Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism
Not just that. The invaders burnt our libraries. There were umpteen number of books that we lost. Maybe those included something from those early days as well
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