South Asian Epics: Epics
Jayalalitha as Draupadi, 1991 elections
Mahabharata Versions and Translations
These are just a few representative books. For many others, search CLIO.
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Beginning the Mahabharata: a reader's guide to the frame stories
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Call Number: Electronic bookISBN: 9780983447221Publication Date: 2011-11-21 -
Bhagavad Gītā : home study course : text in Sanskrit with transliteration, word-to-word and verse meaning, along with an elaborate commentary in English based on Śaṅkara-bhāṣyam
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Call Number: Offsite BL1138.66 .D39 2012gISBN: 9380049390Publication Date: 20129 volumes -
The Complete Mahabharata
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Call Number: Offsite BL1138.25.M46 C66 2010gISBN: 9788129115843Publication Date: 2010
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Indian IdyllsFrom the Sanskrit of THE MAHÂBHÂRATA by Edwin Arnold, Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1907
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Mahabharata
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Call Number: Butler shelvesISBN: 0810130599Publication Date: 2015-03-30David R. Slavitt's new edition condenses the epic for the general reader. -
The Mahābhārata
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Call Number: PK3633.A2 B8ISBN: 0226846482Publication Date: 1973-1978v. 1. The book of the beginning; v. 2. The book of the assembly hall. The book of the forest; v. 3. Book 4: The book of Virata. Book 5: The book of effort; v. 7. 11, The book of the women. 12, The book of peace, part one.
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The MahābhārataBased on John Smith's revision of Prof. Muneo Tokunaga's version of the text, it was subjected to detailed checking by a team of assistants based in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) in Pune, and is made available with BORI's agreement. Also available on mirror site.
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The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaTranslated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli, published between 1883 & 1996
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The Mahābhārata The Great Epic of IndiaJames L. Fitzgerald's plot summary and reading suggestion links
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Mahabharat TV SeriesAll 94 episodes of B.R. Chopra's TV series are available on YouTube. Also available on the Internet Archive
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The Ramayana, and The Mahabharata
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Call Number: BL1138.25 .D88 1910Publication Date: 1910For other editions, search CLIO
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Ramayana/Mahabharata Dutt translationAbridged verse translation of both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, by Romesh C. Dutt, 1899
Ramayana Versions & Translations
These are just a few representative books. For many others, search CLIO.
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Bengali Scrolls of the RamayanaScroll from Calcutta in 1980. South Asia Center, Syracuse
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Breaking the bow : speculative fiction inspired by the Ramayana
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Call Number: Offsite PR9492.2 .B74 2012gISBN: 9381017042Publication Date: 2012
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Development and spread of the Rāma narrative (pre-modern)John Brockington and Mary Brockington, Oxford University Research Archive, 2016.
This material is part of a continuing attempt to survey presentations of the Rāma story as it has been developed from its origin in the so-called Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, through transformations in all genres, media, languages, religions and geographical areas, up to approximately the end of the eighteenth century.
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The Forest Book of the Ramayana of Kampan
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Call Number: PL4758.9.K27 R35213 1988ISBN: 0520060881Publication Date: 1988 -
From Laṅkā eastwards : the Rāmāyaṇa in the literature and visual arts of Indonesia
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Call Number: PL5158.9.R3 Z7 2011g and onlineISBN: 9789067183840Publication Date: 2010Articles on the Kakawin Ramayana, arguably the oldest Old Javanese epic text in Indic metres (circa 9th century AD) -
The life of a text : performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas
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Call Number: PK1947.9.T83 R33326 and onlineISBN: 0520066901Publication Date: 1991Philip Lutgendorf's study of the Tulsidas Hindi version of the Ramayana epic -
Many Rāmāyaṇas : the diversity of a narrative tradition in South Asia
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Call Number: PK2907.R25 M36 1991ISBN: 0520075897Publication Date: 1991 -
Questioning Ramayanas : a South Asian tradition
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Call Number: PK2907.R25 Q83 2001ISBN: 0520220749Publication Date: 2001 -
The Ramayana : a shortened modern prose version of the Indian epic (suggested by the Tamil version of Kamban)
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Call Number: PR9499.3.N3 R36 2006ISBN: 0143039679Publication Date: 2006 -
Ramayana : [King Rama's way]
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Call Number: PS3552.U335 R3 1981ISBN: 0520043944Publication Date: 1981 [c1976] -
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Ramayana, Griffith translationRamayan of Valmiki, translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith, M. A., [1870-1874]
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The Ramayan and other oral narratives of the Kunknas byCall Number: DS432.K57 V33 2012gPublication Date: 2012
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The Ramayana in SanskritIn Sanskrit, Devanagari and Romanization, from files created by Prof. Muneo Tokunaga of Kyoto and edited by John D. Smith
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The Ramayana of Valmiki Balakanda
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Call Number: BL1139.22 .E54 1984ISBN: 0691065616Publication Date: 1984-7 volume set (ultimately). v. 1. Bālakāṇḍa; v. 2 Ayodhyākāṇṇda; v. 3. Araṇyakāṇḍa; v. 4. Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa; v. 5. Sundarakanda; v. 6. Yuddhakāṇḍa
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Ramayana/Mahabharata, Dutt translationAbridged verse translation of both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, by Romesh C. Dutt, 1899
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Ramayana stories in modern South India : an anthology
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Call Number: PL4608.55 .E5 2008ISBN: 0253219531Publication Date: 2008Also available as electronic book -
Reading the Rāmayāṇa : a bibliographic guide for students and college teachers : Indian variants on the Rāma-theme in English translations
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Call Number: Z7049.I3 S6 1983ISBN: 0915984873Publication Date: 1983
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Sita Sings the BluesNina Paley's animated version of Valmiki's Ramayana, 2009
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The Slaying of Meghanada: A Ramayana from Colonial Bengal
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Call Number: PK1718.D74 M413 2004 and onlineISBN: 0195167996Publication Date: 2004
