Image 1: Episode from Bhāravi’s Kirātārjunīyam: Dispute between Arjuna and Kirāta over the hunted boar [AI generated image] Kirātārjunīyam and Kathāsaritsāgara, two Sanskrit literary works from ancient and early medieval India, offer insights into how people imagined, experienced and gave meaning to their natural surroundings. By reading these texts as sources for environmental history, I... Continue Reading →