# The Great Indian Epics

Author: Oman, John Campbell, 1841-1911 [Adapter]; Valmiki [Contributor]

Genre: Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73417

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Great+Indian+Epics+Oman&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Foremost amongst the many valuable relics of the old-world literature of India stand the two famous epics, the “Ramayana” and the “Mahabharata,” which are loved with an untiring love by the Hindus, for they have kept alive, through many a dreary century, the memory of the ancient heroes of the land, whose names are still borne by the patient husbandman and the proud chief.[1] These great poems have a special claim to the attention even of foreigners, if considered simply as representative illustrations of the genius of a most interesting people, their importance being enhanced by the fact that they are, to this day, accepted as entirely and literally true by some two hundred millions of t...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-indian-epics-73417/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-indian-epics-73417/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-indian-epics-73417/chapters/4/index.md)
- [book vi., canto xcvi.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-indian-epics-73417/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-indian-epics-73417/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-indian-epics-73417/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-indian-epics-73417/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-indian-epics-73417/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-indian-epics-73417/chapters/1/index.md)