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The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

It has been the proudest privilege of this Institute to have undertaken and successfully completed the stupendous work of bringing out a critical edition of this encyclopedic Epic with the help of such eminent scholars, both Indian and western, as Prof. Raghu Vira, Prof. Sushil Kumar , Prof. V. S. Sukhtankar, Prof. P. L. Vaidya, Prof R N Dandekar, Prof. Edgerton and others.

The accuracy of the critical text has been applauded by scholars all over the world.

The Bhandarkar Oriental research Institute, Pune was founded on July 6, 1917 to commemorate the name and work of Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, the foremost pioneer of Scientific Orientology. Since then, The Institute has been working strenuously through its four main departments:

Mahabharata and Research Unit
Manuscripts
Publication
Post-Graduate Research Department.

The seven big volumes of the History of Dharmasastra by Prof. P V Kane won for him the prestigious title of Bharatratna, while Prof. R N Dandekar, the Hon. Secy. of the Institute for over 52 years won the Padma Bhushan and fellowship of the Sahitya Academy.