10 Great
Indian Epics and Authors
1. Ramayana
Introduction: It tells the story of the righteous prince Rama and his rescue of his wife Sita after her abduction by the demon king Ravana. The present illustrated manuscript is laid out on the grandest scale with over 400 paintings originally.
Author :
Valmiki
2. Abhigyan
Shakuntalam
Introduction: Abhigyana
Shakuntalam ~ the recognition of Shakuntalam ~ WORLDS MOST BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY !!!! The story of Shakuntalam and Dushyant is one of the
most charming among them.
The great poet Kalidasa retold this story in his immortal play.
Author: Kalidas
3.Kamasutra
Kamasutra
describes the kind of union according to the force of desire, dimensions, time and
depending on the different kinds of love. It has detailed advice on the importance
of embracing, kissing, pressing, or leaving marks on the partner’s body by using
nails, various ways of lying down, different types of Congress, biting and
different ways in which love must be employed
Author :
Vatsyayana
4.Gitanjali(157
poetry)
Gītāñjali, a
collection of poetry, the most famous work by Rabindranath Tagore, published in India in
1910. Tagore then translated it into prose poems in English, as Gitanjali: song offerings, and it was
published in 1912 with an introduction by William butler yeats.
Author :
Rabindranath Tagore
5.Mahabharat
It has been
called the national epic of India, and it is that, in very much the same sense
that the Iliad is the national epic of classical Greece.
The Mahabharata is the story of a great war that ended one age and
began another. The story has been passed down to us in a classical canon of
Sanskrit verses some 100,000 stanzas long; that's about 12 times the length of
the western bible.
Written by Ved Vyas and dictate by lord Ganpati
6.Akbarnama
The Mughal Empire was never again at its glory as it was during the reign of Akbar. Called
the greatest emperor of India by some, his story was written down by one of his
nine jewels: Abdul Fazal in the Akbar-Nama. This translation by Mr. H. Beveridge,
i.c.s. is the unabridged version, spread across three volumes bound in two.
Author –
Shaikh Abdul Fazal (one of the 9 jewels)
7.Panchtantra
By the great
Hindu scholar Pandit Vishnu Sharma. The Panchatantra is
a book of Niti, the wise conduct of life, written in the form a chain
of simple stories. each of these stories has a moral and
philosophical theme aiming to guide the reader on how to attain
success in life by understanding human nature.
Author: Vishnu Sharma
8.Natya
shastram
The English
translation of the Natya Shastra, a Sanskrit work on drama, performing arts,
theater, dance, music, and various other topics. The word natyashastra also
refers to a global category of literature encompassing this ancient Indian tradition of dramatic performance.
The
authorship of this work dates back to as far as at least the 1st millennium BCE.
Author :
bharat muni
9.Kautilya Arth Shastra
Kautilya
openly writes about controversial topics such as assassinations, when to kill
family members, how to manage secret agents, when it is useful to violate
treaties, and when to spy on ministers.
Kautilya's Artha Shastra is an excellent treatise on statecraft, economic policy and
military strategy.
Author: Chanakya
(Vishnugupta Kauṭilya)
10.Anandmath
Originally
written in 1882, by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. Anandamath takes the reader back
to Bengal in the clutches of the famine, the backdrop of the pre-independence
struggle and the turmoil of human lives caught in this frame of time. The plot
of the novel reveals the various dimensions of life in the backdrop of the
sannyasi rebellion—such as the plight of the people wrecked by lack of food and the hunger that drove them to the brink of cannibalism, the militant rebels, and
women’s participation alongside their husbands. It is considered one of the
most remarkable works of Bangla language and Indian literature.
Bankim also
gave us the song ‘Vande Mataram’ which became the national song of India.
Author: Bankim
Chandra Chatterjee
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