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Sagas

Long stories told as a sequence of scenes, with the lineages, places and people that hold them together.

Kalidasa · 19 cantos

Raghuvansh

रघुवंशम्

Kalidasa's epic follows the kings of Ayodhya across many generations: a childless king who serves a sacred cow, a son who gives away the world, a husband undone by a falling garland, the avatar Rama, and at last a pleasure-loving king whose line rests on a child not yet born.

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The great war of the Bharatas and the questions it leaves behind.

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Kalidasa's poem of Shiva, Parvati and the birth of Kumara.

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Panchatantra

Animal fables that teach the art of wise living.

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