An overview of the Mahabharata, one of the great religious epics of India.

This is the full text of the 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem in trochaic tetrameter relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for...

Find translations of the Mahabharata along with a simplified version for the novice reader. The Mahabharata is the greatest Indian epic.

An essay by Soumen De about why the Gita was written and its philosophies. He shows the Gita's relation to other Indian religious doctrines.

Concise explanation of the longest Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata.