The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient Indian literature, the other being the Ramayana. It is an epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pandava princes. The Mahabharata consists of over 100,000 shlokas or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. It is a text of immense importance in Indian culture and philosophy, and is revered as a sacred scripture.
