MahabharataKrishna
Krishna: who Krishna is in the Mahabharata, in plain words.
The friend, counsellor and charioteer of Arjuna, who does not take up arms in the war, but who guides the Pandavas, speaks the Gita and is the real strategist of the war. See Krishna.
See the whole story in eighteen books and the other characters.
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A retelling in our own words of a story told in many ways across India and Asia. Tellers differ on many episodes. It is not a scholarly translation.