Vyasa spent years composing the epic, using his divine powers to dictate the verses to the god Ganesha, who acted as his scribe. The epic grew to be so vast that even Ganesha, with his elephant ears, could not keep up with Vyasa's dictation. It is said that Vyasa dictated the verses at a rate so fast that Ganesha had to break his tusk to keep up with the pace.
The Mahabharata, composed in Sanskrit, is an epic poem consisting of approximately 100,000 shlokas (couplets). It is attributed to the sage Vyasa, who is said to have dictated the epic to the god Ganesha. The Mahabharata is a vast and diverse text that encompasses a wide range of themes, including: