Indian literature

ancient Hindu text on erotic love

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand (), was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.

philosophical traditions of the Indian subcontinent

thumb|The first page of oldest surviving Panchatantra text in Sanskrit thumb|An 18th-century Pancatantra manuscript page in Braj ("The Talkative Turtle")

collection of traditional narratives of the previous lives of Buddha before his last life as Gautama

regional literature

poem written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

body of Indic literature

Pāli version of the advanced theology of Buddhism

collection of fables

Aesop's fable

thumb|upright=0.85|Nepalese manuscript of the Hitopadesha, c.1800

The Kathāsaritsāgara ("Ocean of the Streams of Stories") (Devanagari: कथासरित्सागर) is a famous 11th-century collection of Indian legends and folk tales as retold in Sanskrit by the Shaivite Somadeva from Kashmir.

Aesop’s fable

parable from the ancient Indian subcontinent, in which several blind men feel and try to conceptualize an elephant

Aesop’s fable

Aesop's fable

collection of Indian tales

Tragic romance in Punjabi literature

folktale type (ATU 306)

thumb|Prabhāvatī and the Parrot Śukasaptati, or Seventy tales of the parrot, is a collection of stories originally written in Sanskrit. The stories are supposed to be narrated to a woman by her pet parrot, at the rate of one story every night, in order to dissuade her from going out to meet her paramour when her husband is away. The stories frequently deal with illicit liaisons, the problems that flow from them and the way to escape those crises by using one's wits. Though the actual purpose of the parrot is to prevent its mistress from leaving, it does so without moralising. At the end of the

Tutinama (), literal meaning "Tales of a Parrot", is a 14th-century series of 52 stories in Persian. The work remains well-known largely because of a number of lavishly illustrated manuscripts, especially a version containing 250 miniature paintings commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in the 1550s. The Persian text used was edited in the 14th century from an earlier anthology 'Seventy Tales of the Parrot' in Sanskrit compiled under the title Śukasaptati (a part of katha literature) dated to the 12th century. In India, parrots (in light of their purported conversational abilities) are popu

Rājataraṅgiṇī (Sanskrit: राजतरङ्गिणी, romanized: rājataraṅgiṇī, IPA: [ɾɑː.d͡ʑɐ.t̪ɐˈɾɐŋ.ɡi.ɳiː], ) is a metrical legendary and historical chronicle of the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent, particularly the kings of Kashmir. It was written in Sanskrit by Kashmiri historian Kalhana in the 12th century CE.

various fables, including Aesop's

literature in the Hindi language

Publisher

1557 short story by Cristoforo Armeno

Aesop's fable

story from the Arabian Nights

Grimm fairy tale

tragic romance of Punjab and Sindh

Aesop's fable

story of one of Gautama Buddha's past lives

sindhi Qissa

poem by Amir Khusrow

Mahākāvya (lit. great kāvya, court epic), also known as sargabandha, is a genre of Indian epic poetry in Classical Sanskrit. The genre is characterised by ornate and elaborate descriptions of phenomena such as scenery, love, and battles. Typical examples of mahākāvya are the Kumarasambhava and the Kiratarjuniya. thumb|Mahabharata the longest Mahakavya The genre evolved from earlier epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Despite the length of mahākāvyas (15-30 cantos, a total of about 1500-3000 verses), they are still much shorter than the Ramayana (500 cantos, 24000 verses) and the Mahabhara

Book by Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India

europian folk tale

Aesop's fable

The Divyāvadāna or Divine narratives is a Sanskrit anthology of Buddhist avadana tales, many originating in Mūlasarvāstivādin vinaya texts. It may be dated to 2nd century CE. The stories themselves are therefore quite ancient and may be among the first Buddhist texts ever committed to writing, but this particular collection of them is not attested prior to the seventeenth century. Typically, the stories involve the Buddha explaining to a group of disciples how a particular individual, through actions in a previous life, came to have a particular karmic result in the present. A predominant them

written forms of the Kannada language, written in the Kannada script.

thumb|Manohara as depicted in Phap Nang Ngam Nai Wannakhadi ("Illustrations of Ladies in Literature"), an illustrated book by Thai people|Thai artist [[Hem Vejakorn.]] Manohara is the kinnari (half-woman, half-bird) heroine of one of the Jataka tales. Typically referred to as Manohara and Prince Sudhana, the legend appears in the Divyavadana and is documented by stone reliefs at Borobodur. Versions of the story are reported in the literature of Southeast Asian countries, and similar stories about a bird maiden and a mortal man can be found in East Asia.

tradition of poetry

body of literature in the Marathi language

story known throughout the Indian sub-continent

Aesop's fable

folk story

thumb|Manipravalam used to write Malayalam Manipravalam (, ) is a macaronic language found in some manuscripts of South India. It is a hybrid language, typically written in the Grantha script, which combines Sanskrit lexicon and Tamil morpho-syntax. According to language scholars Giovanni Ciotti and Marco Franceschini, the blending of Tamil and Sanskrit is evidenced in manuscripts and their colophons over a long period of time, and this ultimately may have contributed to the emergence of Manipravalam. However, the 14th century Sanskrit work Lilatilakam states that Manipravalam is a combination

Padshahnama or Badshah Nama (; ) is a group of works written as the official history of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan I. Unillustrated texts are known as Shahjahannama, with Padshahnama used for the illustrated manuscript versions. These works are among the major sources of information about Shah Jahan's reign. Lavishly illustrated copies were produced in the imperial workshops, with many Mughal miniatures. Although military campaigns are given the most prominence, the illustrations and paintings in the manuscripts of these works illuminate life in the imperial court, depicting we

songs composed by Rabindranath Tagore

Practice of calligraphy in India

Textual creative works in the Telugu language

Indian collection of folk tales

Ancient Meitei epic of Manipur

progressive literary movement in pre-partition British India

Persian collection of romantic tales

Romantic narrative and folk tale in Sindhi and Gujarati literature

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Buranjis (Ahom language: ancient writings) are the state historical chronicles and manuscripts of the Ahom kingdom (fl. 1228–1826). These were written initially in the Ahom Language and from the 16th century additionally in the Assamese language. The Buranjis are an example of historical literature which is rare in India—they bear resemblance to Southeast Asian traditions of historical literature instead. The Buranjis are generally found in manuscript form (locally called puthi), written on sanchipat; a number of these manuscripts have been compiled and published especially in the Assamese lan

Aesop's fable