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The Mah?bh?rata is a very vast literature and is treated as a significant source of evidence on the socio-political-economic development of India at that time. In this outstanding classic, the time has been described in so many places.In Mah?bh?rata, time has been portrayed as an all-pervading supreme deity. In the section of Bh?g?vad Gita, we see that time occupies that highest place as well and has become one with the divine entity. Lord Krishna was identifying himself with K?la. Supremacy of time has been established here.In the ?hantiparva, section CCXXXI (231), there is an interesting conversation between Yudhisthira and Pitamoho Bhishma where Yudhisthira wanted to know some basic questions about the universe and the nature of time. In this section we can find a detailed time measurement process stated by Vy?sa. In Mah?bh?rata, time is itself divine and cyclic in nature. It shows a special characteristic of Hinduism. The concept of cyclical time is closely associated with the concept of soul or ?tman in Hinduism.