Hitopadesha (Good Counsel) is an 11-12th century Sanskrit collection of stories in four chapters instead of five in the Panchatantra on which it is based. Each ...
Parvati was born a maiden of the mountains. The mighty god Shiva was practicing meditation in the dense forest. Desiring to win over Shiva, Parvati went to serv...
Ambition and arrogance, these were to be the cause of Ravana's downfall. Blessed by both Brahma the creator and Shiva the destroyer, the powerful ruler of L...
The stories in this Amar Chitra Katha are retold from the Mahabharata, which is an Indian epic that has had a profound influence on the culture and philosophy o...
Bhasmasura, the demon, has Shiva in a fix. The good-natured god has granted him a boon that any person whom he touches on the head will turn to ash and now the ...
The three worlds of the universe were reeling from shock, the asuras had taken control! Even the plants were withering away. Only the great Lord Vishnu could ma...
Badu and Chou were friends but they did not trust each other. So when they set off to seek their fortune together each one was bent upon outsmarting the other, ...
Legend has it that the ancient town of Thanjavur came up on the spot where Vishnu defeated an evil demon. The mighty Cholas made it their capital in the 9th cen...
Shakuntala was the daughter of a nymph and a sage who abandoned her in the woods. Sage Kanva brought her up. King Dushyanta on a visit to the hermitage was stru...
Sage Narada symbolizes unqualified devotion to Lord Vishnu, also known as Narayana. He is inseparable from his veena and has the name of Lord Narayana always on...
When King Dushyanta first saw Shakuntala, he was struck by her incomparable beauty and gentle character. He made her his wife and vowed to take her back to his ...