The Mahabharata is a famous epic in ancient India, and like the Ramayana, the Mahabharata is also formed over the centuries and is based on the oral circulation of the folk, so the epic includes many unique poems and brings together many folk oral creations. At the same time, it is also the longest epic in the history of the ancient world, with a total of 18 poems and about 100,000 hymns, equivalent to 8 times the Greek Homer epics "Iliad" and "Odyssey" combined.
The Mahabharata means "the war story of the great Brahmins", and the core of this epic is the story of the decisive battle between the two branches of the Brahmin tribe as the Aryans expanded into the Ganges Valley, and the main content is as follows: the king was blessed as a descendant of the Brahmin tribe, and he had a son Vishamma at his first marriage, and made this son a prince; later he married for the second time and gave birth to two sons. Vishnu voluntarily ceded his succession to his half-brother, but the two younger brothers died one after another. The two widows each gave birth to a son, the eldest of whom was called Zhiguo, who was born blind; the second, who was called Pandu. Zhiguo and his wife had a hundred sons and a daughter, the eldest of whom was called the Nandang, and they formed the Julu family; Bandu had five sons, whose names were Jianzhan, Qijun, Azhouna, Kaitian, and the five kinds, and they formed the Bandu family. The main content of the epic is the contradiction and struggle between these two families.
The ruler was blind and could not succeed to the throne, and Bando became king. Soon, Bando retired to the mountains and forests, and he succeeded him as king. After His death, his wife and five children were sent back to the palace. The holders were initially good to them. However, when the state was ready to establish a strong war as king, the eldest son of the country could not resist in every way. Under the planning of the difficult enemy, the five brothers and their mother were arranged to live in a palace in a foreign country, which was full of combustible materials arranged by the difficult enemy to burn the five brothers of the Bandu family.
The Bando brothers got the news and dug the tunnel leading outside. Later, the palace caught fire, and they escaped through the tunnels. The five brothers disguised themselves as Brahmins, begged everywhere for food, and offered their mothers. They wandered to a country where they were about to choose a horse for the princess on the condition that they must be strong in martial arts, and the old three Ah Zhou won the competition. According to the promise shared by the five brothers in the fall, the five married the princess together. At the same time, their true identities were exposed.
Knowing that the five brothers were still alive, he accepted Vishnu's suggestion and divided the land in half among the five of them. They built their capital in the Heavenly Emperor City, where they lived happily for many years. Jian Zhan became the king of Wei Zhen with the help of his brothers, and it was difficult to be jealous, so he set up a conspiracy to invite Jian Zhan to gamble. Jian Zhan lost the gamble twice, and the five brothers of the Pandao family were exiled to the forest for twelve years according to the agreement, and in the thirteenth year, they were not discovered, and if they were discovered, they would be exiled for another twelve years.
Two or three years later, both the Julu and Bando families were fighting for allies and preparing for war. The enemy first declared war on the five brothers of Pandu, and the Julu family had the superiority in troops, but internal opinions were not unified. In the eighteenth day, the four commanders of the Julu family were killed one after another, and on the last day, the enemy himself was seriously injured in the thigh and his life was in danger. The Julu family was almost completely destroyed, and only three generals remained, and the three of them designed a sneak attack on the camp of the Pandao family at night. There were only five brothers and one military master on the Side of the Bando family, who survived because they were not in the battalion. The enemy died blind when he learned of this news. After the end of the war, only these nine people were left on both sides, and the Bando family was victorious. The blind king and queen decided to abdicate and go to the forest to practice, and Jianzhan's mother also decided to go to the forest to practice. Three years later, they died in a forest fire.
After becoming king, Jian Zhan went around and became the king of kings. At this time, the five brothers of the Bando family and their wives gradually grew tired of the world. They passed the throne to a grandson, and the six of them went to the snowy mountains to practice monasticism. On the way to the mountain, his wife and four brothers died of fatigue, and only Jianzhan and a dog reached the peak. At this time, the god Indra took him up to heaven. He saw only the enemy in heaven, not his wife and brother. He went to hell in search of his brothers and wife, preferring to suffer in hell with them rather than enjoy himself in heaven alone. It turned out that this was a test of the gods against Jian Zhan. He stood the test, so the changing hell became heaven, and the battle became God.
The Mahabharata celebrates the noble virtues of filial piety to one's parents, concern for one's brothers, wives and children, and loyalty to one's friends, and attacks such despicable deeds as insidious cunning, greed and jealousy. In addition, the epic includes many folktales as well as religious and political aspects. These inserts are actually also a stand-alone work, presumably by editors from different eras who have arranged the folklore they deem meaningful into this grand epic. Text/Ice Condensation