Read the epic. Test your knowledge.
Every epic is told in stages. At each one, first the story, then the questions — and behind every right answer, another story.
- Ramayana — A prince sent to the forest for fourteen years, and a war that began with an abduction.
- Mahabharata — Two halves of one family, eighteen days of war, and nobody in it entirely innocent.
- Krishna-Leela — The child who stole butter, the flute-player, and the charioteer who spoke the Gita.
- Hanuman-Gatha — The one who forgot his own strength, and had to be reminded of it every time.
- Vishnu-Puran — From a fish to Kalki — ten avatars, and the stories that lie between them.
- Shiv-Mahima — The god who does not weigh the one who asks, and stands outside the order.
- Devi-Charit — The gods make her out of their own defeat — and then she does not go back.
- The Bhagavad Gita — One talk on a halted chariot, which eighteen centuries have read eighteen ways.
- Ganesh-Vrittanta — The god you invoke first — and every one of whose stories is told two ways.
- Bhagavata Devotees — Ten people, ten starting points — and each reached God simply by wanting to.
- Kartikeya-Vrittanta — Almost forgotten in the north — perhaps the most beloved god in the south.
- The Garuda Purana — The most detailed map of what happens after death — and a pointing past it.