Excerpt from Works by the Late Horace Hayman Wilson, Vol. 3 The Introduction to the Mahdbhdrata (art. IV.) was intended to serve merely as a general outline of the leading story of that epic. Since it was printed, Prof. M. Williams' useful and laborious book, entitled Indian epic poetry has appeared, to which the reader must be referred for a more detailed account. (see also Prof. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.