Vishnu Sukthankar, editor of the first great critical edition of the Mahabharata, commented: 'It is useless to think of reconstructing a fluid text in a literally original shape, on the basis of an archetype and a stemma codicum. It is estimated that the Sanskrit text probably reached something of a 'final form' by the early Gupta period (about the 4th century CE). It is generally agreed that 'Unlike the Vedas, which have to be preserved letter-perfect, the epic was a popular work whose reciters would inevitably conform to changes in language and style,' so the earliest 'surviving' components of this dynamic text are believed to be no older than the earliest 'external' references we have to the epic, which may include an allusion in Panini's 4th century BCE grammar Ashtādhyāyī 4:2:56. The background to the Mahabharata suggests the origin of the epic occurs 'after the very early Vedic period' and before 'the first Indian 'empire' was to rise in the third century B.C.' That this is 'a date not too far removed from the 8th or 9th century B.C.' is likely. Some elements of the present Mahabharata can be traced back to Vedic times. Research on the Mahabharata has put an enormous effort into recognizing and dating layers within the text. Puneet Issar sebagai Begawan Parasurama.Vaishnavi Dhanraj sebagai raksasi Hidimbi.

Ajay Mishra sebagai Sanjaya (Mahabharata).Sameer Dharmadhikari sebagai Maharaja Santanu.Nazea Hasan Sayed sebagai Wrusali, istri Karna.Anoop Singh Thakur sebagai Prabu Dretarastra.Hemant Choudhary sebagai Resi Kepala Krepa.Rohit Bharadwaj sebagai Prabu Yudistira.

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