Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit

摘要: Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including "The Rig Veda" and Mahabharata", "Hindu Myths" are thought to date back as far the tenth century BCE. Here these seventy-five seminal myths many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction, mischievous child Krishna, alongside stories minor gods, demons, rivers animals boars, buffalo, serpents monkeys. Immensely varied bursting with color life, they demonstrate Hindu belief limitless possibilities world - teeming miracles creation origins incarnation Death eventually touches them all.