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can anyone email me at : cricketvideos@hotmail.com i am seeking the translation of the name singh into sanskrit. thank you
- Singh transliterated usually as सिंग in Devnagari is dervied from sanskrit word simha सिंह meaning lion
- Ramashray 04:49, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)Ramashray
Theater, as an art, is not indigenous to India...
Could someone proof that, because - i don't think so. --Simon Seelenkönig 00:26, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Theatre as an art is almost certainly indigenous to India. There was possibly an influence from Hellenistic Greece during the expansion under Alexander the Great, but it was an influence on an existing form of theatre. --R. Kevin Doyle 1:43, 17, Nov 2005
Traditionally, authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to the sage Vyasa. However, Vyasa's historical veracity cannot be verified by independent sources. Also, it is clear that the Mahabharata was not written by any single person at any single time. Indeed, the first stanza of the Mahabharata mentions that the name of the book is Jaya ("victory"), even though the book is now called Mahabharata. Scholarly estimates are that the epic had about 10,000 stanzas when it was first composed (by Vyasa?). It was orally transmitted for several centuries, making it easy for anyone to add a few lines here, remove/modify a few lines there.
I contest the claims that "a few lines were added here and removed there", as there is no proper citation as to any proof or analysis in the first place.
You will not find someone contesting that Shakespeare didn't write his entire works WITHOUT some form of citation.
As well, to use phrases such as "add a few lines here, remove/modify a few lines there" sounds colloquial and does not belong in a Wikipedia article. --Asherek 21:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC) I have editted that line out, I believe it is scandalous without any proper citation to back up the claims of people "doctoring" the Mahabharata as it was passed down. Asherek 20:04, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Citation for an edit Nov 15
My source for adding "nagarvadhu" to Mricchakatika was [1]. Is the musical adaptation worth a mention too? Mereda 09:49, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Harivamsha
I could not find mention of Harivamsha. It should be included. Joy1963 07:24, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mahabharata
The Bharata text was subsequently expanded, quadrupling in size over the time of four centuries or so reaching its zenith of philosophical sophistication in the seminal work of the Hindu religion, the Bhagavad Gita, which appears in the tenth Parva (book) of the Mahabharata. Edited this part. This sentence makes you feel as if Mahabharata is a philosophical work which is not true. Gita, YakshPrashna, Bhisma and Yudhishithira's comments about ethics are some of the verses that can be termed Philosophy but that is not major part considering the total number of verses. --Kaveri 19:21, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
