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.

“The king must collect taxes in accordance with dharma,” Nirmala Sitharaman said, quoting from Shanti Parva, the twelfth of eighteen books of the Mahabharata. Sitharaman also proposed an ...

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 ... Sthree parva is the shade given by a tree; Shanti parva is like the fruits of a tree; Ashvamedha parva is the juice of the fruits; Ashramavasika 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 ...

Kolkata: Fifty-five years after his teacher Professor P Lal commenced an English transcreation sloka by sloka of the full ‘Mahabharata’, his student, retired IAS officer and city scholar ...