Kautilya

Jambūdvīpa: The Great Continent of the Mahabharata and the Place of Bhārata Within It

The name Bhārata is inseparable from the dynastic traditions at the heart of the Mahabharata. The epic repeatedly identifies its leading figures as descendants of Bharata, and the Kuru lineage itself belongs within the larger Bharata genealogical tradition. The geographical term consequently carries both ancestral and territorial meaning.

Categories