Union budget 2022-23: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman quoted the shloka from Shanti Parva Adhayaya of Mahabharata, the Sanskrit epic, as she skipped reading it citing time constraints.

– Mahabharata (Shanti Parva 273.17)Look around—divorce rates are skyrocketing, family feuds are common, and relationships are built on convenience, not commitment.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman started the second part of her Union Budget speech by speaking about direct taxes with a verse from the Mahabharata. “The king must collect taxes in ...

The Shanti Parva of Mahabharata says Yudhishthira went to the battlefield and asked questions about dharma and good governance. Bhishma and the rishis who had gathered there answered these questions.

Words spoken with pride lead to disaster, said P.T. Seshadri in a discourse. There is a story in the Shanti Parva of Mahabharata, which talks about a huge tree in the Himalayas. The tree had many ...

The Mahabharata is likened to a tree, and the different parvas are like different parts of a tree, elaborated Kidambi Narayanan in a discourse. ... Shanti parva is like the fruits of a tree; ...

The final volume, ‘Anushasana Parva’, the 13th book of the ‘Mahabharata’, took about three years to complete. This followed Bhattacharya completing the second half of the ‘Shanti Parva ...

In the Shanti Parva of the Mahabharata, Yudhishthira asks Bhishma many questions as the latter lies on a bed of arrows, awaiting death. In the Shanti Parva of the Mahabharata, Yudhishthira asks ...