Talk:Mahabharata

Semi-protected edit request on 13 April 2016

The Mahabharata is not the longest epic in the world. Manas and the Tibetan King of Gesar are the longest epics. Will provide sources later today. Alva2bryant (talk) 12:20, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Feel free to re-open template when you provide the sources Cannolis (talk) 15:28, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Use in German anti-Semitism

I have removed the section on "Use in German anti-Semitism". From the Mahabharata's point of view that's irrelevant trivia. It was hardly a significant work inspiring or affecting anti-Semitic thought in any way, and while it may have been abused in that way, that's not relevant to an understanding of the Mahabharata. Besides, the section offered too little context to be useful. There was no timeframe to allow us to put it in context - which idologists did so, when did they do so? Where did it cause anti-Brahminism - in Germany? in India? If the latter, why would British colonial authorities or the Indian public be influenced by anti-Semitic German ideologues and their far-fetched schemes? If the former, would regular Germans even have been able to tell Brahmins from other Indians? I rather doubt that. The reference pointed to more than a hundred pages; that's rather unspecific. If this line of German indology should be discussed at all, it's in the article on indology itself, not here. Huon (talk) 11:15, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

See discussion above. There was a dispute over whether to call it German or Nazi anti-Semitism, but no one suggested to delete the info. This material has CONSENSUS.VictoriaGrayson^Talk 13:35, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

A vague, unclear passage about some tenuous connection to anti-semitism is irrelevant and inappropriate in an article on a millenia-old text. I don't see any consensus for adding that random section. There will be thousands of reliable sources on a subject like this - we don't include everything in this article, WP:WEIGHT is the guiding policy here. I'm removing that section again. FireflySixtySeven (talk) 14:54, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Written In city of Rourkela in Odisha

I want to share, It was written by Ganesh where as dictated by Ved Vyasa in Rourkela a city in Odisha. There is very big temple of Lord Shiva in a place called "Vedvyas" which is in the side of River Brahmani. In the ancient temple the cave and meditation place of rishi is also there. The tree is also present where Lord Ganesh sat and wrote the Granth. Itsyouranmol (talk) 17:52, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Synopsis

Would it be useful to have a brief book by book synopsis, instead of the current synopsis section?Bodha2 (talk) 22:26, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Nudity

Not essential to the Mahabharatha - just typical Wikiporn - the Fisherwoman picture showing the nipple is not at all modest and is in violation of Indian, Hindu, and Vedic standards of decency. I propose it should be removed. Samsbanned (talk) 01:27, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

I'm curious to know whether the Khajuraho temple complex of Madhya Pradesh, India is also in violation of "Indian, Hindu, and Vedic standards of decency." CMurdock (talk) 20:45, 17 April 2017 (UTC)