The second volume of Mahābhārata is probably the most important of all its volumes. It covers all the actions and inaction that lead eventually to get great war at Kurukshetra. The volume is much shorter than the first(almost half in length) and covers the story from the building of great "Maya Sabha" till the banishment of the Pandavas to exile.

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A literal translation is like the wrong side of a tapestry: the threads are all there but the pattern is missing.

- Kamala Subramaniam (preface of Mahabharata)