India's real name is Bhārata-varṣa. Perhaps you know. Bhārata-varṣa. This whole planet was known in the beginning as Ilāvṛta-varṣa. Then there was a king, Mahārāja Bharata. So according to his name the whole planet became Bhārata-varṣa. This whole planet is called Bhārata-varṣa according to Vedic literature. But now it is now divided.
There is a long history, how the human society was distributed all over this planet. So far Mahābhārata is concerned, you Americans or Europeans, you also originally belonged to India, according to Mahābhārata. Turkish civilization and Greece civilization was originally from India. Two sons of Mahārāja Yayāti, they were given kingdom of Turkey and Greece, and from Turkey and Greece the European civilization or population has increased, and from Europe, the Americans, they have come here. Of course, that is historical point.
So here it is said: "My dear Vyāsadeva, you have compiled a great literature, Mahābhārata. And in that Mahābhārata you have introduced everything that is knowable for understanding." Mahābhārata was originally written for the woman class and strī-śūdra-dvija-bandhūnām (SB 1.4.25). Because the Vedic literature is very stiff. Not only because it is written by old Sanskrit . . . written in old Sanskrit language, but the meaning is very deep. Vedic literature . . . because at that time people were very intelligent, so simple one hint gives them lots of meaning. Just like Vedānta-sūtra. Vedānta-sūtra, you'll find simply some clues. Janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1): "The source of all emanation." Now we can think over, "the source of all emanation."