| We must note
that when the Mahabharata was televised in India a few years ago, the entire country was
mesmerized. Trains stopped. Government offices were closed to allow people to watch the
program. A comparable phenomenon has never occurred in the West when films of the Bible
were shown on television, not has any other national epic so gripped the attention of any
country. This shows that the Mahabharata still
unites the country and is indeed a national epic. Those who would deny any real
history to India as a nation or Hinduism as a religion have only to look at the
Mahabharata to see the absurdity of their views. Even the title of the book challenges
their view. |
