great thanks 😀Originally posted by: Poorabhforever
Bhagvat gita is a part of Mahabharata. Not the other way round.
There are many manuscripts about Mahabharata found/discovered . It can be broadly classified in two different categories - Northern recension that means the north indian manuscript and Southern recension the south Indian manuscript. These manuscripts were collected and combined into various editions by various scholar/ team of scholars. There are 9 prominent editions from which 6 edition are On NR and 3 on Southern . This broadly can be seen as basic Canon of Mahabharata - they are the calcutta edition , Bombay edition, burdwan edition , Bibek debroy s critical edition, Madras edition , Southern edition, Gorukhpur edition . Northern recension is more famous when it came to translation.
Kishore mohan ganguly was one of the first one to translate this canon into English prose as early as 1896. He mainly used Burdwan edition and bombay edition .his translation id one of the most prominent reference that people read and use as a source. You should start by reading that first
His translation can be easily downloaded in pdf verson or can be read here
Another prominent version today is Bibek debroy s CE sadly free pdf of that version is not available. You can get it on various book sites either as ebool or paperback.
This is the link of Kishore mohan ganguly s version sacred text
https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/maha/
Now Mahabharata is broadly divided into 18 major parvas starting from adi parva - which is the begining. And then it goes on
Apart from this translation there are various retellings . Various interpretation by various author scholars etc. But before anything i suggest you read kmg because that is one of the primary source of information on Mahabharata
Don't worry its bit complicated. 😆 But once you start on this beautiful journey it us vast ocean of immense knowledge. As the saying goes- Mahabharata stands for everything that this world is there is nothing in this world which is not there in Mahabharata.







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