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Who led the project begun in 1919 to prepare a critical edition of the Mahabharata?
AMax Muller
BV.S. Sukthankar
CR.G. Bhandarkar
DD.D. Kosambi
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. V.S. Sukthankar
1. The Sanskritist V.S. Sukthankar led it.
2. It took 47 years and over 13,000 pages.
3. Half the pages record regional variations.
_Source: NCERT Class 12 Themes in Indian History Part I, Theme 3, Kinship, Caste and Class: Early Societies._
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