By Swami Harshananda
Sometimes transliterated as: Adiparva, Adiparva, AAdiparva
Mahābhārata, the great epic and the biggest didactic work of poetry in world literature, is divided into eighteen books, each of which is known as a ‘parva.’ Ādiparva forms the very first book.
References
- The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore