Is our misogyny rooted in the Mahabharata?

THERE IS a difference between the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. There are many Ramayanas, of which Valmiki Ramayana is one. There is, however, only one Mahabharata, believed to have been composed by Krishna Dvaipayana Vedavyasa. Yes, there are regional versions of Mahabharata and they only vary in how they render popular accounts; sometimes one version contains a story that another doesn’t. Still, there is now a Critical Edition, courtesy of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Pune), a massive scholarly exercise that spanned 50 years between 1916 and 1966.

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