the Hindu mythical beast Sharabha(pictured, god Shiva as Sharabha), described as mightier than the lion and elephant, is included in the list of edible animals in the Mahabharata?
in the Vyadha Gita, a part of the epic Mahabharata, a vyadha (butcher) imparts teachings to a sannyasin (monk) on dharma and the importance of work?
according to the Hindu epic Mahabharata, the apsaraTilottama(pictured) was so beautiful that the god-king Indra developed a thousand eyes on his body to see her?
Question 1: Later she is reborn to King Drupada as Shikhandi (or Shikhandini) and causes Bhishma's fall, with the help of ________, in the battle of Kurukshetra.
Question 2: The Kannada novelist ________ wrote a novel in Kannada (now translated into most Indian languages and English) titled Parva, giving a new interpretation to the story of Mahabharata.
Question 4: [4] It is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined,[5] roughly five times longer than Dante's ________, and about four times the length of the Rāmāyaṇa.
Question 5: In the Western world, a well-known presentation of the epic is Peter Brook's nine-hour play, which premiered in ________ in 1985, and its five-hour movie version The Mahabharata (1989).
Question 10:
What does the following picture show?
The central figure is Yudhishthira; the two to his left are Bhima and Arjuna. Nakula and Sahadeva, the twins, are to his right. Their wife, at far right, is Draupadi. Deogarh, Dasavatar temple.
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