Section Five : Astika Parva

Section Five : Astika Parva

The Mahabharata

24/01/2021 6:23PM

Episode Synopsis "Section Five : Astika Parva"

This Parva has 1025 shlokas and 41 chapters. It is one of the longer Parvas and is about the snake-sacrifice, which provides the setting where the Mahabharata story was told. The Parva is named after a sage named Astika, who saved the snakes (the major ones) from the snake sacrifice.

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