describe the various stages through which …

Various stages are: 1) the original story was probably composed by charioteer - bards known as sutas who are generally accompained Kshatriyas warriors to the battlefield and composed poems celebrating their victories and other achievements. 2) these composition circulated orally. 3) then, from the fifth century BCE, Brahamans took over the story and began it to commit writting. 4) the new kings want their history to be be recorded and preserved more systematically. 5) this was the period when the worship of Vishnu was growing in importance, and krishna, one of the important figures of the epic, was coming to be identified with vishnu. Subsequently, between c.200 and 400CE, large didactic sections resembling the manusmruti were added. This enormous composition is traditionally attributed to a sage named vyasa.