Bharata was the tribe engaging in the war described in the Mahabharata, and the name of several noble Aryans, hence also the name of Bharat in modern India. A.G.H.
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The general Indian Religion or Bharata Dharma holds that the world is an Order or Cosmos. It is not a Chaos of things and beings thrown haphazard together, in which there is no binding relation or rule.
Turn to that great storehouse of spiritual wisdom, the Mahabharata, to the Ashvamedha Parva which contains the Anugita, and you will find that Arjuna after the great battle, forgetting the teaching that was given him on Kurukshetra, ...
The first known references to the unicorn are in the Gilgamesh verse epic of ancient Mesopotamia, dating from about 2000 BC, and in the Hindu epic poem the "Mahabharata" (AD 400).
This magnificent theophany continues with a vision of the fate of all the combatants in the Mahabharata War, who rush headlong to destruction into Krishna's multifold gaping jaws or sharp tusks; cf. Bhagavad Gita 11.26-34, pp. 1044f.
The bookseller tried to interest him in a partly illustrated story from the Mahabharata, which he declined on the grounds that it was a pagan text.
The sixth book of the epic Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita, or 'Sacred Song', is a central text of the Hindu scriptures, in which Krishna instructs his disciple Arjuna in the paths of higher knowledge and self-realization.
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fights the noble fight in the "Mahabharata," or "Great War," con-
stantly being waged between the higher and the lower self, difference in
nowise from the hero of the northern soul myth, "Siegfried," which means, ...
"the Lord's Song," a portion of the Mahabharata, the great epic poem of India. It contains a dialogue wherein Krishna -- the "Charioteer" and Arjuna his chela have a discussion upon the highest spiritual philosophy.
 See also: World, Mahabharata, Ritual, Death, Anima
  
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