Oman, a professor in Lahore, retells the stories of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata in English prose. Rama’s exile and the rescue of Sita, then the Pandava brothers’ dice game, banishment to the forest and great war with their cousins, are each followed by notes and appendices on their place in Indian religious and social life.
Chosen for Sir John Lubbock’s ‘Hundred Books’, it remains a clear introduction to India’s two great epics. Download the free EPUB.