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Teacher: The Sage NarratorThe caption will appear here as the teacher speaks.
The invocation, the three narrators, the story of the divine scribe, and what the epic says about itself.
नारायणं नमस्कृत्य नरं चैव नरोत्तमम्।
देवीं सरस्वतीं चैव ततो जयमुदीरयेत्॥Transliteration: nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya naraṃ caiva narottamam | devīṃ sarasvatīṃ caiva tato jayam udīrayet ||
धर्मे चार्थे च कामे च मोक्षे च भरतर्षभ।
यदिहास्ति तदन्यत्र यन्नेहास्ति न तत्क्वचित्॥Transliteration: dharme cārthe ca kāme ca mokṣe ca bharatarṣabha | yad ihāsti tad anyatra yan nehāsti na tat kvacit ||
Every verse in this lecture can be checked against these texts.
Mahabharata, invocation
nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya (traditional maṅgala-śloka)
Mahabharata, Adi Parva
1.1 (frame narrative of Ugrashravas at Naimisha, paraphrased)
Mahabharata, Adi Parva
Ganesha-scribe episode: vulgate text only, not in the Critical Edition constituted text
Mahabharata, Adi Parva
1.56.33 (Critical Edition)
This lecture was narrated from texts reviewed by our scholar reviewers. The teacher character is an artistic interpretation.
The Sage Narrator is an artistic character, not a historical person. Where a story comes from later tradition rather than the critical text, he says so.