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Indravati
Indravati (इंद्रावती) is a Sufi premakhyan, a love-narrative poem in Awadhi composed by Noor Muhammad in 1744, telling of Rajkunwar and Indravati as an allegory of the soul's longing for divine light.
Ishqnama (عشقنامه)
Ishqnama (عشقنامه, Book of Love) names several Persian and Urdu love poems: Wajid Ali Shah's 1849–50 Urdu verse autobiography in a unique illuminated Royal Collection manuscript, Hasan Dihlavi's 1301 Indo-Persian romance, and Ubayd Zakani's 14th-century Persian masnavi.
Itihasa
Itihasa (इतिहास) is a Sanskrit term for a genre of narrative works about the past, meaning "thus it was"; the Ramayana and Mahabharata were both called itihasa.
Jagamohana Ramayana
The Jagamohana Ramayana (ଜଗମୋହନ ରାମାୟଣ), also known as the Dandi Ramayana after its meter, is an Odia retelling of the Ramayana composed by Balarama Dasa around AD 1500, a foundational work of Odia literature.
Jaimini Bharata
Jaimini Bharata (ಜೈಮಿನಿ ಭಾರತ) is a Kannada epic poem by the poet Lakshmisha, written around 1500, that retells Yudhishthira's horse sacrifice and was recited in villages through the Gamaka tradition.
Jayadrath Vadh
Jayadrath Vadh (जयद्रथ-वध) is a 1910 Hindi khandkavya, or short epic, by Maithili Sharan Gupt that retells Abhimanyu's death in the chakravyuh and Arjuna's slaying of Jayadrath.
Jivandhara Charite
Jivandhara Charite (Jīvandharacarite) is a Kannada Jain narrative poem by the poet Bhāskara, completed at Penugonde in 1424, retelling the life of Prince Jivandhara in 1000 verses across 18 chapters.
Kaba Cindua Mato
Kaba Cindua Mato is a classical Minangkabau kaba, a rhymed-prose epic of West Sumatra, Indonesia, telling of the royal family of Pagaruyung and the hero Cindua Mato.
Kakawin Arjunawijaya
Kakawin Arjunawijaya is an Old Javanese court poem composed by the Majapahit poet Mpu Tantular in the late 14th century, retelling the war between King Arjuna Sahasrabahu and the rakshasa king Rawana.
Kakawin Bharatayuddha
Kakawin Bharatayuddha, meaning "The War of the Bharatas," is an Old Javanese court epic retelling the Mahabharata war, begun in 1157 at the court of King Jayabhaya of Kediri.
Kakawin Hariwangsa
Kakawin Hariwangsa is an Old Javanese poem by Mpu Panuluh, written at the court of King Jayabhaya of Kediri around 1135 to 1157, telling of Krishna's abduction of Rukmini.
Kakawin Parthayajna
Kakawin Parthayadnya, also known as Parthayana, is an Old Javanese court poem telling of Arjuna's journey to Mount Indrakīla, traditionally attributed to Mpu Tantular of fourteenth-century Majapahit.
Kaki
Kaki (กากี) is a Thai verse narrative about Queen Kaki, whose beauty draws three men into rivalry and ends with her set adrift at sea.
Kalapurnodayamu
Kalapurnodayamu (కళాపూర్ణోదయము) is a 16th-century Telugu narrative poem in eight cantos by Pingali Surana, a masterpiece of layered storytelling that some scholars call the first Indian novel.
Kalingattupparani
Kalingattupparani (கலிங்கத்துப்பரணி) is a medieval Tamil war poem composed by the court poet Jayamkondar, celebrating Emperor Kulottunga Chola I's invasion of Kalinga and the earliest surviving parani.
Kamba Ramayanam
Kamba Ramayanam (கம்பராமாயணம்), properly titled Irāmāvatāram, is a Tamil epic by the poet Kampan, traditionally dated to the 12th century, retelling the Rama story in Tamil.
Kanda Puranam
Kanda Puranam (கந்த புராணம்) is a Tamil devotional epic retelling the life of the god Murugan, composed around the 14th century by the Kanchipuram priest Kachiyappa Sivachariyar.
Kannada Bhagavata
The Kannada Bhagavata (ಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಗವತ) is a sixteenth-century Kannada verse rendering of the complete Sanskrit Bhagavata Purana, written by Cāṭuvithalanātha in Bhamini shatpadi meter during the Vijayanagara period around 1530 to 1542.
Kannada epic poetry
Kannada epic poetry is the tradition of long narrative poems in Kannada, spanning Jain and Lingayat court epics from the ninth century onward and oral folk epics.
Kannada folk epic
Kannada folk epics (ಜನಪದ ಮಹಾಕಾವ್ಯಗಳು) are long oral narrative poems of Karnataka sung by community singers, with the Manteswamy Kavya and Madeshvara Kavya the principal works.
Kannada Ramayana
The Kannada Ramayana is the body of Rama-story retellings in Kannada, including Nagachandra's Jain Pampa Ramayana of 1149 and Narahari's Torave Ramayana of about 1500.
Kanupriya
Kanupriya (कनुप्रिया) is a 1959 Hindi long poem by Dharmvir Bharati that retells the love of Radha for Krishna from her own point of view.
Kasi Khandamu
Kasi Khandamu (కాశీఖండము) is a Telugu court epic by the poet Srinatha, a rendering of the Sanskrit Kasi Khanda glorifying the holy city of Kashi, composed around 1440 CE.
Kausilumina
Kausilumina (කව්සිළුමිණ, also spelled Kavsilumina) is a thirteenth-century Sinhala mahakavya by King Parakramabahu II of the Dambadeniya period, versifying the Kusa Jataka in 770 verses across 15 cantos.
Kav Silumina
Kav Silumina, literally "the crest-gem of poetry", is a Sinhalese epic poem of thirteenth-century Ceylon, generally attributed to King Parakramabahu II and woven around the Kusa-jataka, the story of the Bodhisattva king Kusa.
Kavikankan Chandi
Kavikankan Chandi (কবিকঙ্কণ চণ্ডী), also known as Kabikankan Chandi or Abhayamangal, is a 16th-century Bengali epic poem on the goddess Chandi, composed by Mukundaram Chakrabarti in West Bengal.
Keyurabahucharitramu
Keyurabahucharitramu (కేయూరబాహుచరిత్రము) is a Telugu kathā-kāvya written by poet Manchana in the 12th or 13th century, one of the earliest Telugu works in the kathā narrative tradition.
Kidung Harsawijaya
Kidung Harsawijaya is a Middle Javanese historical kidung about the fall of Singasari and the rise of Majapahit; its oldest manuscript was copied in Bali in 1843.
Kidung Panji Wijayakrama
Kidung Panji Wijayakrama, also called Kidung Sorandaka, is a Middle Javanese kidung, the earliest extant, with a proposed composition date of 24 November 1334, shortly after the events it describes.
Kidung Sunda
Kidung Sunda is a Middle Javanese narrative poem found in Bali and the fullest literary account of the Bubat incident of 1357, a clash between Sunda and Majapahit.