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Mahabharata Retellings in Indian Languages

Assamese

Bengali

Read the entry on Mahabharata in Banglapedia by Asiatic Society of Bangladesh here
  • Kabi Sanjay, (First half of sixteenth century)
    Read the article On the First Bengali Mahabharata by Pradip Bhattacharya

  • Kasiram Das, (1650)
  • Mahabharata , Rajshekhar Basu , with critical introduction & appendix on names, places, weapons etc. M.C. Sirkar, Calcutta, 1st published 1943, several reprints.

Kannada

  • Pampabharata, (902)
  • Kumara Vyasa , (1494 - 1520)

Malayalam

  • Bharatamala Niranatt Sankara Panikkar (Fifteenth century)
    With study and commentary by Dr. Ponnara Saraswati
    published by Kannassa Smaraka Trust, Niranam, Tiruvalla. (2003).
  • Bharatam Niranatt Rama Panikkar (Fifteenth century)
  • Cherussery Bharatam Cherusseri Namboodiri (Fifteenth century)
  • Sri Mahabharatam Kilippaattu Tunchattu Ramanujan Ezutthachan, (Sixteenth century)

Marathi

  • Mukteswar, (1660)
  • Moropant, (1749)

Oriya

Sarala Dasa, fifteenth century

Tamil

  • Perum Devanar, eighth century
  • Villupthurar-Bharatam, fourteenth century
  • Vyasar Virundu, C. Rajagopalachari, (1943)