ABSTRACT
The Mahabharata tells that three Bengali princes had attended the svayambara of princess Draupadi. It is clear from this that India’s eastern states like Odisha, Bengal, Assam and Manipur were on good terms. A study of eastern India’s background reveals that Assam had a cultural relationship with Aryabartta since the Mahabharata era. Assamese society was previously a rural one. So the Mahabharata in Assamese, composed by Ramasaraswati, mirrors village life of the seventeenth and the eighteenth century of Assam. From the point of the art of composition, a comparison of the Mahabharatas in Odia, Bengali and Assamese with the Mahabharata composed by Vyasa reveals that Sarala Das divided the Adi Parva of the Sanskrit Mahabharata to Adi Parva and Madhya Parva in his Odia Mahabharata. The legends and tales relating to Sri Krsna which are found in the Mahabharata have been propagated in India through the great Indian traditions of dance, music and drama.
