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The Mahabharata in its present form runs to about how many verses?
AOver 100,000
BAbout 10,000
CAbout 1,000
DOver 500,000
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Over 100,000
1. It was composed over about 1,000 years from c. 500 BCE.
2. It has over 100,000 verses.
3. It began with perhaps under 10,000 verses.
_Source: NCERT Class 12 Themes in Indian History Part I, Theme 3, Kinship, Caste and Class: Early Societies._
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