Possible Books for the Indian Epics UnTextbook

 

Below you will find a list of possible books for the Indian Epics UnTextbook, and here are the instructions for completing the extra credit assignment.

 

If you are in the Myth-Folklore class, please choose from any of the sections EXCEPT for the multi-week versions of the epics.

 

If you are in the Indian Epics class, choose from any of the sections, but please wait on the Mahabharata options until after you have finished Narayan's Mahabharata.

 

 

Folktales and Fairy Tales from India

Bengal Fairy Tales by F. B. Bradley-Birt

 

A Flowering Tree And Other Oral Tales from India by A. K. Ramanujan

 

The Orient Pearls by Shovona Devi 

 

Indian Fables and Folk-Lore by Shovona Devi 

 

Tales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel

Indian Folklore by Ram Satya Mukharji

Oral Tradition from the Indus by J.F.A. McNair and T. L. Barlow

Tales of the Sun by Georgiana Kingscote and Natesa Sastri

Bengali Household Tales by William McCulloch

The Talking Thrush by W. Crooke and W. H. D. Rouse

 

Hindu Tales by Teresa Williston

Old Deccan Days by Mary Frere

 

Folklore of the Telugus by G.R.S. Pantulu

 

Told by the Ayah by Advena Hearle

 

Tales of the Old Sind by C. A. Kincaid

 

Indian Fairy Tales by Maive Stokes

 

Folktales of Hindustan by Srisa Chandra Vasu

 

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

 

 

Buddhist Jataka Tales from India

Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources translated by W. R. S. Ralston

The Giant Crab by W. H. D. Rouse

Twenty Jataka Tales by Noor Inayat

 

 

Indian Legends of Gods, Goddesses, Heroines, Heroes

Sacred Tales of India by D. N. Neogi

Nine Ideal Indian Women by Sunity Devee

 

Kalidasa's Shakuntala and Other Works translated by Arthur W. Ryder 

Tales from the Indian Epics by C. A. Kincaid

Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists by Sister Nivedita

 

Cradle Tales of Hinduism by Sister Nivedita

The Indian Story Book by Richard Wilson

Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie

Shri Krishna of Dwarka by C. A. Kincaid

Radha and Krishna translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy

Tales of Ancient India by Edmund Charles Cox

 

Tales from the Hindu Dramatists by R. N. Dutta 

 

Four Short Plays by Rabindranath Tagore

 

Chitra by Rabindranath Tagore

 

Songs of Kabir translated by Rabindranath Tagore

 

 

The Ramayana: One-Week Units

The Divine Archer by F. J. Gould

The Great Indian Epics by John Campbell Oman

The Indian Story Book by Richard Wilson

Stories of Indian Gods and Heroes by W.D. Monro

The Indian Heroes by C. A. Kincaid

Cradle Tales of Hinduism by Sister Nivedita

 

 

The Ramayana: Multi-Week

Ramayana condensed into English verse by Romesh Dutt

The Iliad of the East: The Ramayana by Frederika Richardson

Rama and the Monkeys by Geraldine Hodgson

Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists by Sister Nivedita

 

Valmiki's Ramayana translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith

 

The Ramayana: Uttara Kanda translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt 

 

The Adventures of the Great Hero Rama translated by John Pickford

 

Mahanataka: Dramatic History of King Rama translated by Kalikrishna Bahadur 

 

 

The Mahabharata: One-Week Units

The Indian Story Book by Richard Wilson

Stories of Indian Gods and Heroes by W.D. Monro

 

 

The Mahabharata: Multi-Week + Gita

The Indian Heroes by C. A. Kincaid

The Great Indian Epics by John Campbell Oman

Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists by Sister Nivedita

Legends of India by Washburn Hopkins

 

Nala and Damayanti by Edwin Arnold

 

Mahabharata translated into verse by Romesh C. Dutt

Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie

The Pandav Princes by Wallace Gandy

The Five Brothers: The Story of the Mahabharata by Elizabeth Seeger

Bhagavad Gita (Prasad translation)

 

 

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