Original Mahabharata Book Written by Ved Vyas
The Mahabharata, attributed to the sage Vyasa (also known as Ved Vyasa), is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana. It is an epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pandava princes.
The Mahabharata is the longest epic poem in the world, consisting of approximately 100,000 shlokas (verses), or over 200,000 individual verse lines, and about 1.8 million words in total. This makes it roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined.
The Mahabharata is divided into 18 books or parvas, each of which deals with different aspects of the story, from the origins of the conflict to the war itself and its aftermath.