Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India (the other is Ramayana) that is attributed traditionally to the sage Vyasa, who narrated the events of the Kurukshetra War and its background into a structured poem, while Lord Ganesha transcribed it. It consists of over 100,000 verses. Its exact date of composition remains unknown, but scholars believe that the written epic took shape anywhere betwe