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are given and no answer is adjudged supreme. Everyone answers according to his
dharma and the reader has to choose according to his own dharma. That is why, the
Mahabharata is considered to be a text of debates. The most important function of
the dialogues is that it provides a meditative moment to characters to explore various
moral options available to them for a given situation. Therefore, we can see how
complex is the style, structure and narrative technique of the Mahabharata is.
However its language is so free flowing and rhythmic that the philosophies that are
really hard to understand are made easy to read.
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