the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana, albeit more than 2.5 times shorter than the world's longest poem, The Epic of Manas. Within the Indian tradition it is sometimes called the fifth Veda.

Textual history and structure

The epic is traditionally ascribed to the sage Vyasa, who is also a major figure in the epic. Vyasa described

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