South Asian Epics: Online/Tamil
Introductory guide to South Asian epic literature, including links to original texts and English translations
Ramayana Online Resources
- Bengali Scrolls of the RamayanaScroll from Calcutta in 1980. South Asia Center, Syracuse
From Laṅkā eastwards : the Rāmāyaṇa in the literature and visual arts of Indonesia by 
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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 by Call Number: PK1947.9.T83 R33326 and onlineISBN: 0520066901Publication Date: 1991Philip Lutgendorf's study of the Tulsidas Hindi version of the Ramayana epic
- Ramayana, Griffith translationRamayan of Valmiki, translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith, M. A., [1870-1874]
- The Ramayana in SanskritIn Sanskrit, Devanagari and Romanization, from files created by Prof. Muneo Tokunaga of Kyoto and edited by John D. Smith
- Ramayana/Mahabharata, Dutt translationAbridged verse translation of both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, by Romesh C. Dutt, 1899
The Slaying of Meghanada: A Ramayana from Colonial Bengal by Call Number: PK1718.D74 M413 2004 and onlineISBN: 0195167996Publication Date: 2004- Many Rāmāyaṇas : the diversity of a narrative tradition in South Asia byCall Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 0585104441Publication Date: 1991
- Sita Sings the BluesNina Paley's animated version of Valmiki's Ramayana, 2009
Ramayana Datasets
- 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.
Mahabharata Online Resources
- Bhagavadgītā
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Complete Sanskrit text from National Library of Scotland. A good example of a palm leaf manuscript text - Indian IdyllsFrom the Sanskrit of THE MAHÂBHÂRATA by Edwin Arnold, Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1907
- Ramayana/Mahabharata Dutt translationAbridged verse translation of both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, by Romesh C. Dutt, 1899
- The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaTranslated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli, published between 1883 & 1996
- 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.
- Mahabharata ResourcesResources include introductions, Mahabharata with Bhavadipa commentary of Nilakantha, Kumbakonam Edition of Mahabharata, Southern recension of Mahabharata edited by P.P.S. Sastri, annotated bibliographies, etc.
- The Mahābhārata The Great Epic of IndiaJames L. Fitzgerald's plot summary and reading suggestion links
- Mahabharat TV SeriesAll 94 episodes of B.R. Chopra's TV series online
Beginning the Mahabharata: a reader's guide to the frame stories by Call Number: Electronic bookISBN: 9780983447221Publication Date: 2011-11-21
Tamil Epics--Translations
The Cilappatikāram of Iḷaṅko Aṭikaḷ : an epic of South India by
Call Number: PL4758.9.I4 C538513 1993ISBN: 023107848XPublication Date: 1993An epic of South India
Shilappadikaram (The ankle bracelet) by Prince Ilangô Adigal by Call Number: PL4758.9.I4 C528Publication Date: 1967
Manimekhalai in Its Historical Setting by Call Number: 892.44 Ai983ISBN: 1179087429Publication Date: 1928E-book also available at Internet Archive.
The first part of the work comprises lectures delivered at the Madras university in March and April 1927; the second is a slightly abridged translation of Ṣāttan's Manimekhalai.
Manimekhalai (The Dancer with the Magic Bowl) by Call Number: PL4758.9.C3 M313 1989ISBN: 0811210979Publication Date: 1989-06-01
Tamil Sangam Literature
The interior landscape : love poems from a classical Tamil anthology by Call Number: PL4760.E3 K8 1970ISBN: 0195635019Publication Date: 1970 (c1967)Additional 1967 ed. copies also available.
Tamil love poetry: the five hundred short poems of Aiṅkuru̲nūru̲, an early third-century anthology by Call Number: Electronic copyISBN: 0231150652Publication Date: 2011
Kur̲untokai : a critical edition and annotated translation of the Kur̲untokai by Call Number: PL4758.9.K7953 W553 2010ISBN: 2855391067Publication Date: c2010.3 v. set
Love stands alone : selections from Tamil Sangam poetry by Call Number: PL4758.65.E5 L69 2010gISBN: 0670084190Publication Date: 2010
Poems of love and war, from the eight anthologies and the ten long poems of classical Tamil by Call Number: PL4758.65.E5 P63 1985ISBN: 0231157355Publication Date: 1985
Nar̲r̲iṇai : text and translation by Call Number: PL4758.65.E5 N3713 2008gISBN: 8184701659Publication Date: 2008
