The New Mahabharat.

THE present great war has been likened to the Mahabharat war fought in India over 4,800 years ago with similar issues at stake. Of course, it was also a war of Right over Might and the great Sage Vyasa wrote the history of the war whose literary beauty has not been surpassed. The other day the Hon'ble Mr. M. deP. Webb, C.I.E., while delivering an address to the War League at Hyderabad (Sind) made a striking comparison between the old and the new Mahabharat wars and said a new Vyas would write down the new Mahabharat  which would be reverentially sung and read and heard by myriads of people in Asia, Europe, America, Africa and Australia. For he said he was reading Dutt's translation of the Mahabharat and it struck him that history was repeating itself, and there were many incidents that were common to the present and the old struggle in which Right was opposed to Might. In the end righteousness alone succeeded. Mr. Webb referred to certain incidents in the war relating to Arjun and Karna and he said all those were reflected in the present war.   

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