Nalopákhyanam: Story of Nala, an Episode of the Mahábhárata, the Sanskrit Text, With a Copious Vocabulary and an Improved Version of Dean Milman's Translation (Classic Reprint)

Story of Nala, as told in the following pages, is an episode of the Maha -bha rata, one of the two great Epic poems of the Hindus, containing no less than 107,389 slokas or stanzas. It is extracted from the sixth chapter (fifty-third section) of the third Book or Vana-parvan. Like the rest of the Maha -bha rata, its authorship is attributed to Krishna Dvaipdyana, who is called Vyasa, because he arranged the Vedasl. It is not to be supposed, however, that the Vedas and Maha -bha rata are really the work of the same author. The Vedas are many centuries older than the great Epic poem, and each is the composition of several authors. Probably an interval of several centuries separates the more ancient hymns of the Veda from the more modern; and a similar or perhaps greater separation may be observed between the older parts of the Maha -bha rata and the more modern interpolations. By ascribing this work to Vyasa who is also the reputed author of the Veddnta philosophy it is merely implied that, at some time or other, order and sequence were given to what 1V ivydsa veddn yasmdt sa tasmdd vydsa iti smritah. Maha-bh. I. 2417. He was called Krishna from his dark complexion, and Dvaipdyana because he was brought forth by Satyavati on an island in the Jumna, his father being the Rishi Pardsara. Nyasto dvipe sa yad bdlas tasmdd Dvaipdyanah smritah, line 2416.
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