Excellent condensation of this Indian epic. Among the many battles are surprising events like casual polyandry, appearances of water, and stumbling upon the Bhagavad Gita in its original context. I also think it's interesting how the buff men and willowy women have differently colored skin, but the majority are fair.

This is a collection of comics that tell most of the story of the Mahabharata. Amar Chitra Kata even made comics for the missing parts. I read these 20 years ago, and they were my first intro to this epic tale. This is a real treasure to have them in book format!

'Whatever is found here may be found somewhere else, but what is not found here is found nowhere.' So says the Mahabharata, the longest epic in world literature. Found this beautiful three tome comic which gives a simplified version of the story and acquired footage of Sadhguru explaining the events from a yogi's perspective. This is not just a story, this is everyone's story. To see jealousy, valour, love, hate, lust, friendship and divinity personified in different characters. To learn from their mistakes without suffering the consequences yourself; truly a human story of the highest level. It is too complex to fathom, past lives, future lives, boons, curses, complicated family trees, a story spanning several generations, different races from celestials, demons, gods and brave and weak men alike. While reading about these valiant men, in their epic war, I was doing my best not to judge those from a different time period, but to live the experiences that they went through, so that I myself can grow. A lovely way to learn the basic structure of this story, so that when I do my further reading/viewing I have a some sort of idea of who is who, and what is going on.