Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related in the Mahâbhârata, starved themselves to death and gave their last meal to a beggar. This is not an exaggeration, for such things still happen.
The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
Great stories like the Mahabharata don't belong to any one culture, they belong to the world.