van Buitenen completed an annotated edition of Aranya Parva, based on the critically edited and least corrupted version of Mahabharata known in 1975.In 2011, Debroy notes that the updated critical edition of Aranya Parva, with spurious and corrupted text removed, has 16 sub-books, 299 adhyayas (chapters) and 10,239 shlokas (verses).