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Mahabharataमहाभारतम् · The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

Vyasa’s epic of the Kuru house: the rivalry of the Pāṇḍavas and the Kauravas, the dice, the forest years, the war at Kurukshetra, and the teaching on dharma that follows. Here are all eighteen books of Kisari Mohan Ganguli’s English prose translation (1883–96), section by section, with the Sanskrit adhyāya beside each section where the two have the same number.

Public domain. Ganguli’s translation was published 1883–96; Ganguli died in 1908. The Sanskrit is the ancient text.

Books

Book 1 · Adi Parvaआदिपर्व · 235 sections · 191 with Sanskrit Book 2 · Sabha Parvaसभापर्व · 79 sections · 50 with Sanskrit Book 3 · Vana Parvaवनपर्व · 313 sections · 247 with Sanskrit Book 4 · Virata Parvaविराटपर्व · 72 sections · 57 with Sanskrit Book 5 · Udyoga Parvaउद्योगपर्व · 199 sections · 166 with Sanskrit Book 6 · Bhishma Parvaभीष्मपर्व · 124 sections · 107 with Sanskrit Book 7 · Drona Parvaद्रोणपर्व · 197 sections · 139 with Sanskrit Book 8 · Karna Parvaकर्णपर्व · 96 sections · 57 with Sanskrit Book 9 · Shalya Parvaशल्यपर्व · 65 sections · 44 with Sanskrit Book 10 · Sauptika Parvaसौप्तिकपर्व · 18 sections · 18 with Sanskrit Book 11 · Stri Parvaस्त्रीपर्व · 27 sections · 27 with Sanskrit Book 12 · Shanti Parvaशान्तिपर्व · 363 sections · 271 with Sanskrit Book 13 · Anushasana Parvaअनुशासनपर्व · 168 sections · 116 with Sanskrit Book 14 · Ashvamedhika Parvaआश्वमेधिकपर्व · 92 sections · 86 with Sanskrit Book 15 · Ashramavasika Parvaआश्रमवासिकपर्व · 39 sections · 20 with Sanskrit Book 16 · Mausala Parvaमौसलपर्व · 8 sections · 7 with Sanskrit Book 17 · Mahaprasthanika Parvaमहाप्रस्थानिकपर्व · 3 sections · 3 with Sanskrit Book 18 · Svargarohana Parvaस्वर्गारोहणपर्व · 6 sections · 5 with Sanskrit

How the sections are matched

Ganguli translated the Calcutta edition. The Sanskrit here is Sanskrit Wikisource, a different recension, so section numbers were not trusted blindly: a page is paired only when this edition has an adhyāya of the same number with verse text, and the first named speaker (Janamejaya, Vaisampayana, and so on) is the same on both sides.
Where the counts differ (extra or missing adhyāyas), the English section is shown alone, with links to the nearest Sanskrit. In all, 1611 of 2104 sections are beside their Sanskrit.
Ganguli’s English is prose, not a verse-by-verse gloss; a section beside its adhyāya is the same passage, not a line-by-line match.
The Bhagavad Gita, which stands inside Bhishma Parva, is also in this library as its own text (Arnold’s Song Celestial).
Ganguli’s footnotes keep his own numbers.

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English: Kisari Mohan Ganguli, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated into English Prose from the Original Sanskrit Text (Calcutta: Bharata Press, 1883–1896), public domain. Transcription: Project Gutenberg #15474, #15475, #15476, #15477 (from the sacred-texts.com scan, J. B. Hare / Distributed Proofreaders). Sanskrit: Sanskrit Wikisource. The ancient text is public domain; Wikisource page text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.