📚 Hindu Mythology

Books with hindu mythology on their catalogue record, first published between 1789 and 2004, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject hindu mythology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,843 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Abhijñānaśākuntalam of Kālidāsa	Kālidāsa	1789	134
	The Vishnu Purana	H. H. Wilson	1840	33
	Raghuvaṃśa	Kālidāsa	1832	28
	Kathāsaritsāgara	Somadeva Bhaṭṭa	1839	25
	Hindu Mythology	W. J. Wilkins	1882	23
	Kathāsaritsāgara	Somadeva Bhatta	1924	23
	Hindu gods and heroes	Lionel D. Barnett	1922	20
	A classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, geography, history, and literature	Dowson, John	1879	19
	Vedic mythology	Arthur Anthony Macdonell	1897	18
	Hindu Tales From The Sanskrit	Siddha Mohana Mitra	2004	17
	Indian mythology	Veronica Ions	1967	14
	Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History and Literature	John Dowson	1961	13
	Seasons of Splendor	Madhur Jaffrey	1985	13
	The Hindu pantheon	Edward Moor	1810	12
	Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists	Margaret Elizabeth Noble	1913	11
	Epics, myths and legends of India	Thomas, Paul	1940	10
	Climbing Chamundi Hill	Ariel Glucklich	2003	10
	A draught of the blue	Bain, F. W.	1905	9
	Gods, demons and others	Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan	1964	9
	Hindu Myths	Anonymous	1975	9
	Savitri	Aaron Shepard	1992	8
	Genealogy of the South Indian Deities	Daniel Jeyaraj	2004	8
	Indian myth and legend	Donald Alexander Mackenzie	1913	7
	Epic mythology	Edward Washburn Hopkins	1915	7
	The history of Hindostan	Thomas Maurice	1795	5
	Sacred tales of India	Dwijendra Nath Neogi	1916	5
	The Indian theogony	Sukumari Bhattacharji	1970	5
	Welding	Richard N. Hart	1910	4
	Asceticism and eroticism in the mythology of Śiva	Wendy Doniger	1969	4
	... Vedic mythology	Arthur Anthony Macdonell	1897	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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