Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook [TRADE PAPERBACK] 2004 • Penguin Classics

HINDU MYTHS: A Sourcebook translated from The Sanskrit with an Introduction and Notes by WENDY DONIGER

TRADE PAPERBACK [2004] PENGUIN CLASSICS

Penguin classics Black Label edition.  

Cover shows heavy shelf / rub wear; visible scratching.

Reads clean; good as new with some tanning.

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