Question

Which of the following statements is incorrect about the critical edition of Mahabharata?

पर्याय

• The project of preparing a critical edition of the Mahabharata took only 5 years to complete.

• There were several common elements in the Sanskrit versions of the story, evident in manuscripts found all over the subcontinent, from Kashmir and Nepal in the north to Kerala and Tamil Nadu in the south.

• The evidence were enormous regional variations in the ways in which the text had been transmitted over the centuries.

• Our understanding of these processes is derived primarily from texts written in Sanskrit by and for Brahmanas.

Answer 1

The project of preparing a critical edition of the Mahabharata took only 5 years to complete.

Explanation:

The group devised a mechanism for comparing verses from each copy. Finally, they chose the verses that occurred in most versions and published them in multiple volumes totalling over 13,000 pages. It took 47 years to finish the project. Two things were clear: there were some similar components in the Sanskrit versions of the story, which could be found in manuscripts from Kashmir and Nepal in the north to Kerala and Tamil Nadu in the south.