{"id":2117,"date":"2020-08-11T22:21:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sudlatnid.com\/wp\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2020-08-11T22:21:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:21:44","slug":"why-should-we-read-mahabharata-part-i-civilisational-philosophy-indic-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=2117","title":{"rendered":"Why Should We Read Mahabharata Part I \u2013 Civilisational Philosophy &#8211; Indic Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-zuki-article  wp-post-image alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sudlatnid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/krishna-preaching-arjuna-bhagwat-geeta-harsh-malik.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.indictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/krishna-preaching-arjuna-bhagwat-geeta-harsh-malik.jpg?resize=320%2C180&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.indictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/krishna-preaching-arjuna-bhagwat-geeta-harsh-malik.jpg?resize=360%2C203&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.indictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/krishna-preaching-arjuna-bhagwat-geeta-harsh-malik.jpg?resize=875%2C492&amp;ssl=1 875w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.indictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/krishna-preaching-arjuna-bhagwat-geeta-harsh-malik.jpg?resize=263%2C148&amp;ssl=1 263w, http:\/\/sudlatnid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/krishna-preaching-arjuna-bhagwat-geeta-harsh-malik.jpg 700w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.indictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/krishna-preaching-arjuna-bhagwat-geeta-harsh-malik.jpg?resize=540%2C303&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.indictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/krishna-preaching-arjuna-bhagwat-geeta-harsh-malik.jpg?resize=255%2C143&amp;ssl=1 255w\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"205\"> Few epics have captured the imagination of the world in the way Ramayana and Mahabharata have. They have seen many retellings over the last 1000+ years in India and outside. In particular, the last 200 years have seen translations galore. There is hardly a country without a version. Mahabharata had reached as far as Indonesia by 10th Century CE.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indictoday.com\/long-reads\/why-should-we-read-mahabharata-civilisational-philosophy\/\">Why Should We Read Mahabharata Part I \u2013 Civilisational Philosophy &#8211; Indic Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few epics have captured the imagination of the world in the way Ramayana and Mahabharata have. They have seen many retellings over the last 1000+ years in India and outside. In particular, the last 200&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=2117\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hinduism","category-indian-history","category-spiritual","odd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/krishna-preaching-arjuna-bhagwat-geeta-harsh-malik.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}