According to the Mahabharata itself, the tale is extended from a shorter version of 24, 000 verses called simply Bhārata.

According to Mahabharata itself, Vaisampayana's Bharata expanded on the story, with Vyasa's Jaya embedded within it.

According to the Mahabharata, the Sarasvati dried up in a desert ( at a place named Vinasana or Adarsana ); after having disappeared in the desert, reappears in some places ; and joins the sea " impetuously ".

According to Hindu scriptures, a journey was made during the Mahabharata by Balrama along the banks of the Saraswati from Dwarka to Mathura.

According to Mahabharata, Purana, Harivamsha Vanga was one of the adopted sons of king Vali who founded the Vanga kingdom.

According to Indian tradition, and according to the Ramayana itself, the Ramayana belongs to the genre of itihāsa, like the Mahabharata.

According to the Mahabharata, Garuda had six sons from whom were descended the race of birds.

According to the Mahabharata, an entire palace was built out of dried shellac.

According to the Mahabharata ( Adi Parva ), his father was Kashyapa and his mother Kadru.

According to the Mahabharata, he fought on the side of the Kauravas.

According to the epic, the Mahabharata, the Pandava Sahadeva had visited this kingdom during his southern military campaign for the Rajasuya sacrifice of Pandava king Yudhisthira.

According to both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the Yaksha king Vaisravana alias Kubera was the ruler of Lanka.

According to the story set forth in the Ramayana and ( in an abbreviated version ) in the Mahabharata ( Book III: Varna Parva, Section 271 ff.

According to other historians Jamui was also famous in the era of Mahabharata.

According to the Mahabharata he is at last promoted to Paradise as the reward for his munificent charity.

According to the Mahabharata, the Kambojas ruled Kashmir during the epic period with a Republican system of government from the capital city of Karna-Rajapuram-gatva-Kambojah-nirjitastava., shortened to Rajapura, which has been identified with modern Rajauri.

Multan is one of the oldest cities not only in the Asian subcontinent but also in the world. According to Hindu legends, it was the capital of the Trigarta Kingdom at the time of the Mahabharata war, ruled by the Katoch Dynasty.

Traditionally, authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to the sage Vyasa. According to the Adi-parva of the Mahabharata ( 81, 101-102 ), the text was originally 8, 800 verses when it was composed by Vyasa and was known as the Jaya ( Victory ), which later became 24, 000 verses in the Bharata recited by Vaisampayana.

According to the 149th chapter of Anushāsanaparva ( verses 14 to 120 ) in the epic Mahabharata, the names were handed down to Yudhisthira by the famous warrior Bhishma who was on his death bed ( of arrows ) in the battlefield of Kurukshetra.

According to Puranik, by tradition the Bhojas belonged to the clan of Yadavas, who may have migrated to Goa via Dwaraka after the Mahabharata war.

According to C. Rajagopalachari's Mahabharata summary, when Shikhandini was still a young woman she discovered the garland of ever-blooming blue lotuses hung on the palace gate.

According to the Mahabharata and the Puranas, he was the eldest of the five sons of Vasu, the Kuru king of Chedi and his queen Girika.

According to the Agni Purana, Sambhava was succeeded by his son Jarasandha, the noted warrior king mentioned in the Mahabharata.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to Diogenes Laertius, in response to Alexander's claim to have been the son of Zeus-Ammon, Anaxarchus pointed to his bleeding wound and remarked, " See the blood of a mortal, not ichor, such as flows from the veins of the immortal gods.

According to myth, Imhotep's mother was a mortal named Kheredu-ankh, elevated later to semi-divine status by claims that she was the daughter of Banebdjedet.

According to Totonac mythology, the tropical orchid was born when Princess Xanat, forbidden by her father from marrying a mortal, fled to the forest with her lover.

* 1271 – September 12 – According to the followers of Nichiren Buddhism, the sect's founder, Nichiren, reaches a turning point known as hosshaku kempon as he discards his identity as a mortal priest and begins to reveal himself as a reincarnation of the Buddha.

* September 12 – According to the followers of Nichiren Buddhism, the sect's founder, Nichiren, reaches a turning point known as hosshaku kempon, as he discards his identity as a mortal priest and begins to reveal himself as a reincarnation of the Buddha.

According to Ovid, the goddess was so envious of the magnificent tapestry and the mortal weaver's success, and perhaps offended by the girl's choice of subjects ( the loves and transgressions of the gods ), that she destroyed the tapestry and loom and slashed the girl's face.

According to Plato, the first king of Atlantis was also named Atlas, but that Atlas was a son of Poseidon and the mortal woman Cleito.

According to another version, used by Euripides in his play Orestes, Helen had long ago left the mortal world by then, having been taken up to Olympus almost immediately after Menelaus ' return.

According to tradition, he was the son of Hermes and a nymph, despite which Daphnis himself was mortal.

According to one version of Creation as embodied in the Indian Rigveda ( RV ), mortal life emerged from the procreation by Dyauṣ Pitā, whereby the mother Earth, goddess Prithivi was impregnated by the Dyauṣ Pitṛ by way of rains.

According to the legend as related by Diodorus, Semiramis was of noble parents, the daughter of the fish-goddess Derketo of Ascalon in Syria and a mortal.

According to the seminar, Jesus was a mortal man born of two human parents, who did not perform nature miracles nor die as a substitute for sinners nor rise bodily from the dead.

According to the doctrine, Adam was once a mortal man who became resurrected and exalted.

According to a Dindshenchas poem, Cruachan was named after Crochen, the handmaid of Étaín, a sídhe maiden re-born as a mortal.

According to the necromancer who transfromed him into his current form, Bloodscream cannot be slain by any weapon created by a mortal being, though it is unknown this is true or not.

According to the church, a person who is properly disposed by being in the state of grace-i. e., the person has committed no known and unconfessed mortal sins-who receives the Apostolic Pardon gains the complete pardon of all temporal punishment due to sin that has already been forgiven by the reception of absolution and the doing of penance, i. e., a plenary indulgence.

According to Snorri, Olaf received three severe wounds — in the knee, in the neck, and leaning against a large stone the final mortal spear thrust up under his mail shirt and into his belly.

According to Horan, in the Second Coming of Christ, Jesus will rule the world from Jerusalem and there will be two classes of people, " immortal saints " who will rule a world government for a millennium from the religious city and " mortal citizens " who will become " adopted Jews " and live for 900 years.

According to Arthur, the Keys have the ability to kill anything they wish, be it Denizen, mortal, or Nithling.

According to the Deamons of Chaos Army Book, there can also be other, smaller " rifts " in the mortal world, caused by excesses of the emotions and magic that fuel Demonic life.

According to Timon, philosophers are " excessively cunning murderers of many wise saws " ( v. 96 ); the only two whom he spares are Xenophanes, " the modest censor of Homer's lies " ( v. 29 ), and Pyrrho, against whom " no other mortal dare contend " ( v. 126 ).

According to the folklore of the tribe as recounted by the Yoruba elders, the Aare Ona Kakanfo is expected to die a warrior in the defense of his nation in order to prove himself in the eyes of both the divine and the mortal as having been worthy of his title.

According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, in classical Greek mythology, when the crow told the god Apollo that his lover Coronis was cheating on him with a mortal, he became very angry, and part of that anger was directed at the crow, whose feathers he turned from white to black.