I'm not sure how much evidence there is that the actual text of the Mahabharata is anywhere near that old. Wikipedia says > The bulk of the Mahābhārata was pr

I'm not sure how much evidence there is that the actual text of the Mahabharata is anywhere near that old. Wikipedia says > The bulk of the Mahābhārata was probably compiled between the 3rd century BCE and the 3rd century CE, with the oldest preserved parts not much older than around 400 BCE. [1] The actual events that it was based on are older. The same article says that the Kurukshetra war was probably around 1000 BCE, and that there may have been events referenced that are older than that. I don't know that there is accepted evidence that it was written much before 400 BCE, though. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata