Produced by John B. Hare, Juliet Sutherland, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa BOOK 3 VANA PARVA Translated into English Prose from the Original Sanskrit Text by Kisari Mohan Ganguli THE MAHABHARATA VANA PARVA PART 1 SECTION I (Aranyaka Parva) Om! Having bowed down to Narayana, and Nara