In plain words
Gītopāsana: the Bhārata is the fifth Veda. It is a treasury of the dharmas of this world and the world beyond. The Mahābhārata is the wondrous play that Mādhava enacted, having set down his own dramatic props on the stage that is the field of Dharma — the land of Bhārata. For the Bhārata-drama, the author, the actor,