In the Adiparva there are stories about Aruni and two of his other colleagues. There are also accounts of Dhritrashtra’s Regrets (तदा नाशंसे विजयाय सञ्जय )
They ,to me, clearly seem out of the context for the Adiparva and it’s highly possible that interpolated. And surprisingly they have been adopted by the most authentic Bhandarkar edition. Why was so? Why did those researchers conclude those as the part of the original Mahabharata?
by sachinketkar