Task 12
INDIVIDUAL WORK: Compare and analyze the difference of Mahabharata and Ramayana
BASIS
RAMAYANA
MAHABHARATA
IDEOLOGY
 Ramayana is consisting more than
24,000 years verses. Ramayana
describes from birth to death. Ram and
his brother are depicted as embodying
the ideals of Aryan Culture; men of loyalty
and honor, faithful and dutiful sons,
affectionate brother and loving husbands,
men who speak the truth, who are stern
who persevere but are ready and willing
to make sacrifices for the sake of virtue
against the evils of greed, lust and deceit.
 Mahabharata was long poem ever
written contains 100,000 verses.
The Mahabharata is an ancient
Indian epic where the main story
revolves around two branches of a
family- the Pandavas and
Kauravas- who in the Kurukshetra
war, battle for the throne of
Hastinapura. Interwoven into this
narrative are several smaller
stories about people dead or living,
and philosophical discourses.
 Ramayana was in Tretya Yuga to destroy
the evil force by Ravana was ruling Lanka
and demonic in nature.
 Mahabharata was in Dwapara
Yuga. Lord Krishna was born in
Dwapara Yuga to destroy the evil
force of kansa (king of Mathura)
Mahabharata war which
necessary to estaish the ultimate
rigthteous in society.
YUGA CYCLE
CONFLICTING
WAR
 Ramayana war fought a fierce battle with
bow and arrows for nearly seven days
BASIS
INCARNATION
OR MIRACLES
 Ram and Krishna (also an Incarnation of
Vishnu) were the two most- popular
recipients of adoration from the bhakti
(devotional) groups that swept the country
during that swept the country during that
time. Whereas Krishna is adored for his
mischievous pranks and amorous
dalliances, Rama is conceived as a model
of reason, right action, and desirable
virtues. Temples to Rama face by shrines
to his monkey devotee Hanuman are
widespread throughout India. Rama’s
name is a popular form of greeting among
friends (“Ram! Ram!”), and Rama is the
deity most invoked at death.
 Mahabharata war of Kurukshetra,
is considered one of the bloodiest
war was ever fought. It was
monstrous that despite lasting for
18 days it resulted in the death of
80 percent Indian male
population.
 Krishna, Sanskrit, Krsna one of
the most widely revered and most
popular of all Indian divinities,
worshipped as the eighth
incarnation (avatar, or avatara) of
the Hindu god Vishnu and also as
a supreme god in his own right.
Krishna became the focus of
numerous bhakti (devotional)
cults, which have over the
centuries produced a wealth of
religious poetry, music, and
painting. The basic sources of
Krishna’s mythology are the epic
Mahabharata.