Mahabharata is about100000 likes, and Ramayana is about 24000 likes. In ancient India, they were created and spread by oral recitation. Therefore, their texts are fluid, and have been continuously processed and expanded by court singers and folk bard in past dynasties, forming the present scale and form.
The first volume (more than 80,000 ode) of Mahabharata was published in 1933 and 1966. The first volume of Ramayana was published in 1960 and 1975. The purpose of compiling the refined edition is to restore the original form of the work as much as possible by checking various manuscripts. But for India's two great epics, this is an unattainable ideal. First of all, these two epics themselves are the products of long historical accumulation; Secondly, the writing materials in ancient India were mainly scallops, and the original or early manuscripts could not be preserved. At present, the only thing the school can do is to provide an old version as far as possible on the basis of these existing manuscripts that are not very old. At the same time, it excludes all kinds of obviously wrong words and essays, so it is also a relatively pure version. In addition, they listed some important variants of important manuscripts in the form of footnotes or appendices, which made them actually more complete than any previous manuscripts, which was beneficial to the study of the two epics.
According to the research of modern scholars, Mahabharata was written between the 4th century BC and the 4th century AD. In this long 800-year writing process, Mahabharata has roughly gone through three stages: at first, it was a victory song with 8800 praises, then it evolved into Mahabharata with 24000 praises, and finally it expanded into Mahabharata with100000 praises, becoming the longest epic in the ancient civilized world.
As for Pierre de, the author of this epic, all we know at present are legends, and it is difficult to conclude that he is a real historical figure. He is called the author and character of this epic. According to the story provided by the epic itself, Pierre was the illegitimate child of fisherman Li Zhixin before he married the king of Elephant City. Zhen Xuan and Shen Fu's two sons, Hua Hua and Wu Qi, succeeded to the throne one after another and both died, leaving no children. So, I really found Pitty who was ascetic in the forest, let him have sex with two widows of Wuqi, gave birth to two sons and lived in harmony with the country. Since then, Pierre still lives in seclusion in the forest. But he witnessed and participated in the whole process of the struggle between the ancient philosophers (Guru) and the five sons (Pandu). After the five Pandu brothers ascended to heaven, it took him three years to write this epic.