>>214538298
Kek no one here has read the whole thing. They've only seen the cheesy 80s show
>>214538453
>>214538503
Which sanitizes the fuck out of it and simplifies the characters.
Read an adaptation if you want. The original text is dense and starts after the whole story, goes back to the start of the universe as a story within a story and spends a third of the book talking about all the history leading up to the main story. Very confusing for someone unfamiliar.
It's a genuinely good story tho. William Buck's easy to read adaptation is on internet archive
https://archive.org/details/mahabharata-willim-buck
It's honestly something a bit more than what you would expect from mythology.
>>214541087
You can acknowledge that they are Dharmic religions owing their start to India but some of them are outright rejections of Hinduism. Hinduism is like Judaism. If you count that, then Judaism, Christianity and Islam should also be counted as one and Dharmic religions won't beat the Abrahamic ones in number then.
This is so embarrassing man. This is why Buddhists and even Hindus in other countries don't want to associate with Indian Hindus. Full of insecurity and wanting to claim/control everything