Here's an interesting FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) from the Mahabharata. Written in sanscrit in India between 200 B.C. and 200 A.D., it is the world's longest poem, with 90,000 couplets.
To see the answers to each question, highlight the text following the word "Answer" with your mouse-cursor.
Question: What is quicker than the wind?
Answer: Thought
Question: What can cover the earth?
Answer: Darkness
Question: Who are more numerous, the living or the dead?
Answer: The living, because the dead are no longer
Question: Give me an example of space.
Answer: My two hands [held together] as one
Question: An example of grief.
Answer: Ignorance
Question: Of poison.
Answer: Desire
Question: An example of defeat.
Answer: Victory
Question: Which came first, day or night?
Answer: Day, but it was only a day ahead
Question: What is the cause of the world?
Answer: Love
Question: What is your opposite?
Answer: Myself
Question: What is madness?
Answer: A forgoten way
Question: Why do men revolt?
Answer: To find beauty, either in life or in death
Question: What, for each of us, is inevitable?
Answer: Happiness
Question: What is the greatest wonder?
Answer: Each day, death strikes and we live as though we are immortal.
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