Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts including the Rig Veda & 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 & the mischievous child Krishna alongside stories of the minor gods demons rivers & animals including boars buffalo serpents & monkeys Immensely varied & bursting with colour & 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