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Pustak, the reading room
Public-domain English translations, complete and unabridged where we have them: Ganguli's whole Mahabharata, Griffith's Ramayana, the Hitopadesha fables and the Jataka tales.
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The complete Mahabharata in English prose, all eighteen parvas, in the first full translation into English.
2,106 sections
Start readingValmiki's Ramayana in English verse: the opening book, from Narad's question to the youth of Rama.
37 sections
Start readingThe love story of Nala and Damayanti, told in the forest to the exiled Pandavas, in English verse.
2 sections
Start readingAnimal fables told to young princes to teach them wisdom: the winning of friends, the parting of friends, war and peace.
35 sections
Start readingThirty short Jataka fables retold for children: monkeys, geese, wolves and the Bodhisatta in many births.
21 sections
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