It is held in even higher regard than the Râmâyana, and the reading of it is supposed to confer upon the happy reader every good and perfect gift.
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM, THE MAHÂ-BHÂRATA.
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John Dowson's Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology, Religion, Geography, History, and Literature, 1879;
F. Max Müller's Ancient Sanskrit Literature, 1859 (Introduction);
E. A. Reed's Hindu Literature, 1891, pp. 272-352;
Albrecht Weber's History of Indian Literature, 1878, pp. 184-191;
J. T. Wheeler's History of India, 4 vols., 1876, vol. ii.;