Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan (former President of India) on Mahabharata and the Critical Edition by @BhandarkarI
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“The unity of India is based on geographical factors alone but also on its great heritage like the Mahābhārata. The Mahābhārata is a perceptive record of a mighty period in India’s history...
The great Indian Epic has been very popular and had also spread in countries of the Far East Indo-China and Indonesia…. The principal lesson of the Mahābhārata is that the supremacy of dharma & of the law conforming to it has to be recognized &respected for survival in the world
… The dharma integrates the society, while adharma disintegrates it… the lesson of the Mahābhārata have a special relevance and significance in the context of the present, not only for the people of India who appear to be lost in the pursuit of worldly enjoyments...
material benefits and superficial happiness, but also for the whole of humanity which appears at present to have lost its moorings. …
The Critical Edition of the Mahābhārata is a monument to Indian scholarship. "
The Critical Edition of the Mahābhārata is a monument to Indian scholarship. "
The quote above by Dr. Radhakrishnan, the then president of India, is an excerpt from his speech at the publication of the "Critical Edition of Mahabharata" by @BhandarkarI
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