“The Great Battle of Bharats” is an ancient Indian epic consisting of approximately one hundred thousand slavic couplets divided into 18 books and including many inserted episodes (myths, legends, parables, teachings, etc.) related in one way or another the main narrative. In the city of Hastinapur, the capital ...

The storm broke the ship on which the daughter of the king of Lanka (Ceylon) Ratnavali, destined to marry the king of the Vats Udayana, sailed. Clutching the board, Ratnavali escaped, and, found on the shore, she was given under the name Sagariki (from the Sanskrit “sagar” - “ocean”) to the care of the first wife of Udayana, Queen Vasavadatta....

The Pentateuch is a world-famous collection of Indian tales, fables, short stories and parables. The inserted stories of “Panchatantra” (about 100 in different versions), penetrated into the literature and folklore of many peoples, are united by frame stories having one or another didactic attitude. King Amarashakti had ...

The poem left over is believed to be unfinished and augmented later. The mighty demon Taraka, whom Brahma once bestowed with undeniable power for the ascetic feats accomplished by him, frightens and humiliates the heavenly gods, so even their king Indra is forced to pay him a tribute. The gods pray to Brahma for help, ...

"The Acts of Rama" - the ancient Indian epic, consisting of 7 books and approximately 24 thousand couplets-slok; attributed to the legendary sage Valmiki (Vabmiki) The ten-headed Ravana was once the sovereign of the kingdom of the Rahshas demons on the island of Lanka. He received from God of Brahma the gift of invulnerability, thanks to which ...

A poem in 28 songs, from the Sanskrit original of which only the first thirteen and a half were preserved, and the rest came in Tibetan and Chinese transcriptions. King Shuddhodana from the Shakya family, who lives in the city of Kapilavastu in the foothills of the Himalayas, gives birth to a son of Siddhartha. His birth is extraordinary: ...

A play in poetry and prose, based on the contents of the last book of the Ramayana Having released Sita from imprisonment in Lanka and killed her kidnapper of the demon king Ravana, Rama and his wife return to Ayodhya, where the days of their life are now serene and happy. On one of these days, Sita and Rama examine ...

An epic poem that spreads the legend of Nala and Damayanti from the Mahabharata. In the middle of India, the country of Nishadha is located in the mountains of Vindhya, and its noble and generous king was Nala. Near Nisadha there was another country - Vidarbha, and there, King Bhima had a daughter Damayanti, a beautiful woman, ...

A certain Yaksha, a demigod from the retinue of the god of wealth and lord of the northern mountains of Kubera, exiled by his master for some offense far to the south, at the end of summer, when everyone who was away from home, especially yearning for their loved ones, sees a lonely cloud in a sultry sky . He decides to convey the message of love with him ...

The mighty king Dushyanta falls during a hunt into the peaceful forest monastery of hermits and meets three young girls there, watering flowers and trees. In one of them, Shakuntalu, he falls in love at first sight. Posing as a royal servant, the Dushyant asks who she is, for he fears that, ...

The renowned expert in the art of politics, Canakya, or Kaugilla, overthrew in Pataliputra, the capital of the country of Magadhi, the last king from the Nanda dynasty, and after his murder he placed his disciple Chandragupta Mauryu on the throne. However, the loyal minister Nanda Rakshasa managed to escape, to conclude an alliance with the powerful ...

The poem, borrowing one of the plots of “Mahabharata” in Dvaraka, the capital of the poison family, is the divine sage Narada and gives Krishna, the leader of the poison and the earthly incarnation of the god Vishnu, a message from the king of the gods Indra with a request to deal with the king of the country Chedi Shishupala, who with his evil deeds ...

Poem on one of the stories of the Mahabharata During the stay of the Pandava brothers in the twelve-year-old forest exile, their common wife Draupadi once reproached the eldest among the brothers, Yudhishthira, for inaction, indecision, and indulgence of the offending kauravas and urged them to be attacked immediately. With Draupadi ...

King Udayana, the ruler of the country of Vats, was defeated in the battle and lost half of the kingdom. His wise minister Yaugandharayana understands that it is possible to recover the lost only with the help of the powerful king Magadha Darshaki. For this, Udayans need to enter into a kinship with him - to marry the king’s sister ...

Rod Hari is an ancient Indian epic poem in 3 books, considered an annex to the Mahabharata. The first and third books of the poem set forth the most important Hindu myths about creation, the origin of gods and demons, the legendary kings of the Solar and Moon dynasties, earthly incarnations for the salvation of the world (avatars) ...

Late in the evening on the street of Udjayini Samsthanaka, the ignorant, rude and cowardly brother-in-law of King Palaki pursues the beautiful heterosexual beauty Vasantantasu. Taking advantage of the darkness, Vasantasena escapes from him through an unlocked gate into the courtyard of one of the houses. By chance it turned out that this ...

Bhurivasu, the minister of the king of the city of Padmavati, and Devarata, the minister of the country of Vidarbha, as soon as Bhurivasu had a daughter, Malati, and Devararata, the son of Madhava, conspired to betroth them. But King Padmavati firmly decided to marry Malati for his favorite - the courtier Nandan. Discourage this marriage ...

Erotic-allegorical poem in honor of Krishna - Govinda ("Shepherd"), the earthly incarnation of the god Vishnu. In blooming springtime in the Vrndavana forest on the banks of the Yamuna, beloved Krishna Radha languishes in separation from his beloved. A friend says that Krishna leads funny round dances with lovely cowherd boys, "hugs ...

Tsarevich Kandarpaketu, the son of Tsar Chintamani, sees a stranger in a dream and falls in love with her passionately. Together with his friend Macaranda, he goes in search of her. One night, finding himself in the vicinity of the Vindhya Mountains, he accidentally overhears a conversation between two birds. One of them, lane, rebukes the other, ...