Sanskrit text of Ved Vyas's Mahabharat : Adi Parva (Chapter 01 : The Book of the Beginning)

How the Mahabharata came to be narrated by Sauti to the assembled rishis at Naimisharanya. The recital of the Mahabharata at the Sarpasatra of Janamejaya by Vaishampayana at Takshshila. The history of the Bharata dynasty and the history of Bhrigu. Also tells the birth and early life of the Kuru princes. (Adi means first or beginning in Sanskrit)