![]() ![]() Her father refused to let her marry the king unless the king promised that Satyavati's son and descendants would inherit the throne. Several years later, when Devavrat had grown up to be an accomplished prince, Shantanu fell in love with Satyavati. Shantanu, the king of Hastinapur, was married to Ganga (personification of the Ganges) with whom he had a son called Devavrat. Including within it the Bhagavad Gita, the Mahabharata is one of the most important texts of ancient Indian, indeed world, literature. It was first narrated by a student of Vyasa at a snake-sacrifice of the great-grandson of one of the major characters of the story. ![]() The events in the epic play out in the Indian subcontinent and surrounding areas. At 100,000 verses, it is the longest epic poem ever written, generally thought to have been composed in the 4th century BCE or earlier. Krishna-Dwaipayan Vyasa, himself a character in the epic, composed it as, according to tradition, he dictated the verses and Ganesha wrote them down. Interwoven into this narrative are several smaller stories about people dead or living, and philosophical discourses. The Mahabharatais an ancient Indian epic where the main story revolves around two branches of a family - the Pandavas and Kauravas - who, in the Kurukshetra War, battle for the throne of Hastinapura.
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