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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.
Iskandarnameh
Iskandarnameh, also Eskandar-nāma ("The Book of Alexander"), is the Persian Alexander romance, and most prominently the epic poem Nizami Ganjavi completed around 1200–1203 as the last of his Khamsa.
Italian chivalric poetry
Italian chivalric poetry is narrative verse, chiefly in ottava rima from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, recounting Carolingian, Arthurian, and Trojan knights, peaking with Boiardo and Ariosto.
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.
Iwein
Iwein, formerly The Knight with the Lion, is a Middle High German Arthurian romance of about 8,166 verses by Hartmann von Aue, written around 1200.
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.
Jambavan (जाम्बवान्)
Jambavan (जाम्बवान्, Jāmbavān), also Jambavanta, is the bear king of Hindu epic, minister of Sugriva in the Ramayana, awakener of Hanuman's powers, and later opponent of Krishna over the Syamantaka jewel.
Jangar
Jangar, also known as Djangar, is a heroic oral epic of the Kalmyk and Oirat Mongols, centered on the warrior-king Jangar and the idealized land of Bumba.
Jarasandha (जरासंध)
Jarasandha (जरासंध), king of Magadha in the Mahabharata, son of Brihadratha, joined at birth from two halves by the rakshasi Jara. Captor of 86 kings for a Shiva sacrifice, enemy of Krishna, slain by Bhima at Girivraja before the Rajasuya.
Jatayu (जटायु)
Jatayu (जटायु), the vulture king of the Ramayana, son of Aruna and brother of Sampati, friend of Dasharatha, who fought Ravana alone during Sita's abduction and died in Rama's lap after his wings were cut.
Javid Nama
Javid Nama (جاوید نامہ), meaning "The Song of Eternity," is a Persian poem by Muhammad Iqbal, published in 1932, describing a spiritual journey guided by Rumi.
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.
Jayadratha (जयद्रथ)
Jayadratha (जयद्रथ) is the Mahabharata king of Sindhu and Sauvira, a Kaurava ally whose Rudra-granted stand caused Abhimanyu's death and whose slaying by Arjuna before sunset is told in the Jayadratha-vadha Parva.
Jerusalem Delivered
Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) is an epic poem in twenty cantos by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, on the First Crusade and the conquest of Jerusalem.
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.
Jocelyn
Jocelyn is a narrative poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, published in February 1836, presenting the verse journal of a village priest devoted to charity and sacrifice.
Jónás könyve
Jónás könyve (The Book of Jonah) is a 1938 narrative poem by Hungarian poet Babits Mihály retelling the biblical Jonah story as a plea for intellectuals to speak out.
Judita
Judita is a biblical epic by the Split poet Marko Marulić, completed in 1501 and first printed in Venice in 1521, the first artistic epic in Croatian literature.
Ka Moʻolelo o Hiʻiakaikapoliopele
Ka Moʻolelo o Hiʻiakaikapoliopele is a Hawaiian epic telling how Hiʻiaka, youngest sister of the goddess Pele, journeys to Kauaʻi to fetch Pele's lover Lohiʻau.
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.
Kaidara
Kaidara (also spelled Kaïdara or Kaydara) is a Fulani initiatory narrative in 2,460 free verses, collected in 1968 by Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ and published in 1969.
Kaikeyi (कैकेयी)
Kaikeyi (कैकेयी), queen of Ayodhya and Dasharatha's wife, mother of Bharata, whose two boons, won by saving the king in battle, send Rama into fourteen years of forest exile in the Ramayana's Ayodhya Kanda.
Kaiserchronik
The Kaiserchronik, or Chronicle of the Emperors, is an early Middle High German verse chronicle of over 17,000 verses written around 1150, probably in Regensburg.
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.