Chitra Katha
The epics, drawn
The Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita told panel by panel, and the heroes of Bharat in their own picture stories. Every caption comes from the text or the hero’s own page.
18 panels · 18 partsShrimad Bhagavad GitaArjuna drops his bow between the two armies, and Shri Krishna answers his grief with the teaching of karma, jnana and bhakti. Sanjaya relays every word to the blind king Dhritarashtra.Open the story →231 panels · 18 partsMahabharataThe Itihasa of the Bharata clan: how the Pandavas and the Kauravas, cousins of the Kuru house of Hastinapura, came to the war at Kurukshetra, and what followed. Maharshi Vyasa, who lived through it, set it down, and the Bhagavad Gita stands at its centre.Open the story →99 panels · 7 partsValmiki RamayanaThe life of Shri Rama of Ayodhya, told by Maharshi Valmiki, who lived in Rama’s own time and taught the poem to Rama’s sons. It is the Adikavya, the first poem, and with the Mahabharata one of the two Itihasas: the record of what happened.Open the story →वीरभोग्या वसुन्धरा58 heroesVeer Bhogya VasundharaThe earth belongs to the braveOpen the story →
The pictures are drawn for this site to help children and new readers follow the story; they are illustrations, not old art. The words under each picture summarise the episode, and the verses are quoted from the text with their reference.