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Immersive retellings of the world's greatest epics and histories — from India and Greece to Persia, Rome, and beyond.
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From the Mahabharata · Bhishma Parva
Bhagavad Gita
The Song of God — Krishna’s counsel to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra.
Epics.
Long narrative journeys3 books18 Chapters of Timeless Wisdom
Bhagavad Gita
From the Mahabharata · Bhishma Parva
The Song of God — Krishna’s counsel to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra.
7 Kandas of the Epic Journey
Ramayana
The journey of Prince Rama — exile, devotion, and the triumph of dharma over darkness.
The Oldest Epic in the World
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The king of Uruk, the wild man who became his brother, the Cedar Forest, the Flood, and the quest for immortality — from the tablets of Nineveh, four thousand years old.
Greek & Roman Epics.
Homer, Hesiod, and the classical world6 books
The Wrath of Achilles
The Iliad
Homer's epic of the Trojan War — the wrath of Achilles, the fall of heroes, and the gods who moved among them. Samuel Butler's prose translation reimagined as dramatic screenplay.
24 Books of Homer’s Long Way Home
The Odyssey
Homer’s tale of Odysseus’s ten-year voyage from the smoking ruins of Troy back to Ithaca — Polyphemus, Circe, Calypso, and Penelope at the loom.
Arrian’s Anabasis in Seven Books
Alexander of Macedon
The most reliable ancient account of Alexander’s conquests — from the Granicus to Gaugamela, Porus and the war elephants at the Hydaspes, and death in Babylon at thirty-two. E.J. Chinnock’s translation of Arrian, with the Indian campaign enriched from McCrindle’s classical sources.
The Oldest Surviving Play in the World
The Persians
Aeschylus staged the Persian defeat at Salamis just eight years after the battle — entirely from the losing side. Queen Atossa's dream, the messenger's account of the fleet destroyed, the ghost of Darius, and Xerxes' return in rags, in E.D.A. Morshead's classic verse translation.
From Patrician to Dictator
The Rise of Caesar
Suetonius's life of Julius Caesar, retold as an immersive reader — the proscribed boy who defied Sulla, the conqueror of Gaul, the man who crossed the Rubicon, the lover of Cleopatra, and the dictator struck down on the Ides of March.
5 Acts by William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Prequel: The Rise of Caesar
Ambition, envy, and the daggers of the Ides of March — Brutus's agonized choice, Antony's funeral fire, and the long fall to Philippi.
World Mythology.
Gods, myth-cycles, and humanity's oldest stories5 books
From the Dawn of Writing
Ancient Egypt
Three thousand years of pharaohs, retold as an immersive reader — the first hieroglyphs and Narmer's crown, the pyramid builders of Giza, the empire of Thebes and the heretic Akhenaten, and the collisions with Persia, Alexander, and Rome that brought it all to an end.
Myths of the Nile
The Gods of Egypt
The mythology of ancient Egypt, retold as an immersive reader — the sun rising out of the primordial waters, the birth of the first nine gods, the murder and resurrection of Osiris, the war of Horus and Set, and the judgment of the dead before the scales of Ma'at.
The Egyptian Guide to the Afterlife
The Book of the Dead
The oldest guidebook ever written — the spells buried with the dead of Egypt, the journey through the gates of the Duat, the forty-two declarations of innocence, the weighing of the heart against a feather, and the green fields that wait beyond judgment.
The Norse Myths of Snorri Sturluson
The Prose Edda
The Norse myths in one book — the world made from a giant's body, Yggdrasil the world tree, Odin and Thor, Loki and his monstrous children, the death of Baldr, and Ragnarok, the doom of the gods that ends in a green world reborn.
Hesiod's Birth of the Gods
Theogony
The Greek creation story — Chaos and the first four beings, the castration of the Sky, Kronos swallowing his children, the stone that saved Zeus, the ten-year war against the Titans, and the ordering of Olympus. The backstory to the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Sacred Texts.
Hymns, philosophy, and divine knowledge8 books
10 Divine Avatars of Vishnu
Dasavatar
From Matsya the cosmic fish to Kalki the future destroyer — the ten incarnations of the Preserver.
10 Mandalas of Sacred Hymns
The Rig Veda
The oldest hymns of humanity — 1,028 verses composed in Vedic Sanskrit between 1500–1200 BCE, praising Agni, Indra, and the elemental deities.
The Sacred Book of Ancient Persia
The Zend-Avesta
Ahura Mazda, the prophet Zarathustra, and the cosmic war between truth and the Lie — the scriptures of the Persian Empire in James Darmesteter's translation, from creation to the final judgment.
8 Chapters of a Divine Life
Adi Shankara
From divine birth in Kalady to samadhi at Kedarnath at age thirty-two — the founder of Advaita Vedanta, the great debates, and the four mathas.
13 Ancient Dialogues on the Nature of Reality
The Principal Upanishads
From Nachiketa's bargain with Death to Yajnavalkya's court debates — the thirteen principal Upanishads dramatized from Max Müller's translations.
Songs of the Warkari Saints
Abhang
The devotional abhangs of Maharashtra's saints — Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Janabai, and Tukaram — songs to Vitthal of Pandharpur.
Sayings of the Buddha
The Dhammapada
The best-loved scripture of Buddhism — the Buddha's own sayings on the mind, craving, anger, and the path to peace, in verse with meaning for a modern reader.
The 24th Tirthankara and the Jain path
The Life of Mahavira
The life of Vardhamana Mahavira — prince, ascetic, and awakened teacher — and the birth of the Jain path of nonviolence, drawn from the Kalpa Sutra.
Puranas.
The great tales of Vishnu, Shiva, and the Goddess5 books
Creation, the Kings, and the Life of Krishna
Vishnu Purana
H.H. Wilson's classic translation of the Vishnu Purana — the churning of the ocean, the royal dynasties, and the life of Krishna.
Seven Samhitas on the Great God
Shiva Purana
Sati and Parvati, the birth of Ganesha and Kartikeya, and the glory of the twelve jyotirlingas — the Shiva Purana as an immersive reader.
The War-God and the Sacred Places
Skanda Purana
The birth of the war-god Skanda and the sacred legends of Kashi, Ujjain, and Somnath — from the largest of the Puranas.
Twelve Cantos on Krishna and the Avatars
Bhagavata Purana
Prahlada and Narasimha, the churning of the ocean, Vamana and Bali, and the complete life of Krishna — the most beloved of the Puranas.
The Devi Mahatmya and the Glory of the Goddess
Markandeya Purana
The Devi Mahatmya — the Goddess who slays Mahishasura, Shumbha, and Nishumbha — with the sacred tales of sage Markandeya.
History & Statecraft.
Empires, rulers, and the making of nations8 books
15 Books on Statecraft
Arthashastra
Kautilya's clinical blueprint for the Mauryan Empire's survival and expansion — power, economics, and law.
20 Chapters of Maratha History
Shivaji and His Times
Jadunath Sarkar's definitive biography of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj — the builder of the Maratha nation.
Father of Kannada Theatre
Dr. Gubbi Veeranna
A commemorative life of Dr. G.H. Veeranna (1891–1972) — Nataka Ratna and Padma Shri — who turned a village troupe into the great Gubbi Company.
Volume 1: New Floods
Ponniyin Selvan
Kalki Krishnamurthy’s epic Tamil historical novel set in the 10th century Chola dynasty — political intrigue, war, and romance across South India.
18 Chapters of Vijayanagar's Rise and Fall
A Forgotten Empire
A narrative history drawing on Robert Sewell (1900) and B. Suryanarain Row (1905) — the Vijayanagar Empire from its founding in 1336 through its golden age under Krishna Deva Raya to its fall at Talikota in 1565, and the feudatory cities that outlived it.
10 Chapters of India’s Maritime Superpower
The Chola Empire
The thousand-year rise of the Cholas — Sangam-era chieftains who became a medieval superpower, crossing the Bay of Bengal to invade Srivijaya, raising the Great Living Chola Temples, and casting the dancing Shiva in bronze.
From Conquest to Compassion
Ashoka: The Buddhist Emperor
Vincent A. Smith's account of history's greatest transformation — from the blood-soaked fields of Kalinga to the rock edicts that proclaimed non-violence across an empire.
11 Chapters of the Great Revolt of 1857
The Indian Mutiny of 1857
From the greased cartridges at Barrackpore to the Rani’s last charge at Gwalior — Mangal Pandey, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Lakshmibai of Jhansi, Nana Sahib, Tantia Tope, and the Begum of Oudh, drawn from A.R. Hope Moncrieff and G.B. Malleson and told from the Indian perspective.
Tales, Plays & Poetry.
Moral fables and the literary canon7 books
19 Cantos by Kālidāsa
Raghuvaṃśam
The Dynasty of Raghu — tracing the solar lineage from King Dilīpa through Rama to Agnivarṇa.
7 Acts by Kālidāsa
Abhijñānaśākuntalam
A king who falls in love with a forest maiden, a curse that erases memory, and a ring that restores recognition — India’s most celebrated drama.
12 Chapters of the Path to Awakening
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse’s Nobel-honored novel — one seeker’s passage from the Brahman’s house through asceticism, love, and loss to awakening beside a river.
115 Stanzas by Kālidāsa
Meghadūta
An exiled yaksha begs a passing monsoon cloud to carry a message of love across India to his lonely wife in the Himalayan city of Alaka.
Seven Acts by Vishakhadatta
Mudrarakshasa
Chanakya, architect of the Mauryan empire, snares the loyal minister Rakshasa — not with armies but with a single signet ring and a forged letter. A political thriller of pure statecraft.
Stories of the Buddha’s Former Lives
Jataka Tales
Twenty dramatic tales of sacrifice, wisdom, and courage — the Bodhisattva as monkey kings, golden deer, six-tusked elephants, hares in the moonlight, and noble princes across ten thousand lifetimes.
Five Books of Worldly Wisdom
The Panchatantra
The most translated stories India ever produced — animal fables that teach the art of wise living. A schemer breaks a lion and bull apart, four mismatched creatures build an unbreakable alliance, crows outwit owls, a monkey outwits a crocodile, and a loyal mongoose pays for a rash act. Vishnu Sharman's five books, in Arthur W. Ryder's classic translation.
Living Traditions.
Festivals, rites, and the turning year1 bookEpicDharma brings ancient Indian texts to life through immersive digital experiences. Each epic is carefully retold with rich narratives, stunning artwork, and thoughtful design that honors the source material while making it accessible to modern readers.