A History of Sanskrit Literature c13.20

c13.20

To the next stage, in which the epic, handed down by rhapsodists, swelled to a length of about 20,000 *çlokas*, belongs the representation of the victorious Pāṇḍus in a favourable light, and the introduction on a level with Brahmā of the two other great gods, Çiva, and especially Vishṇu, of whom Kṛishṇa appears as an incarnation.