The Kurukshetra War , also called the Mahabharata War , is a war Hostile_encounter described in the Indian epic poem `` Mahābhārata '' .

The chapters ( `` parvas '' ) dealing with the war ( from chapter six to ten ) are considered amongst the oldest in the entire `` Mahabharata '' .

It is possible that the Battle of the Ten Kings , mentioned in the Rigveda , may have `` formed Coming_to_be the 'nucleus ' of story '' of the Kurukshetra war , though it was greatly expanded Expansion and modified Change in the `` Mahabharata '' 's account , which would therefore be of very dubious historicity .