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¹ The best example is the much-quoted Mahabharata itself. Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterji, the distinguished scholar, says of the above text : "....the Mahabharata, which started as a series of ballads recounting the jaya or triumphs of the Pandavas gradually became elaborated into a great epic in Sanskrit by about 500 B.C. and went on expanding by the addition of all sorts of new materials for the greater part of a millennium, until it attained by 400 A.D., as is generally surmised, to something like its present huge dimensions as a vast poem of 1,00,000 verses or 2,00,000 lines." CHATTERJI, S. K., The Place of Assam in the History of Civilization of India, Gauhati, 1955, p. 14.