Jain Novel

Jain novels retell the great kathas of the tradition at full length: the lives of the 63 shalaka purush, the saga of Samaraditya across nine births, and the story of Bharat and Bahubali, in editions that read like fiction and run to several volumes. They are for the reader who loved the picture-book version as a child and wants the whole story now.

Families keep a set for the long evenings of Chaturmas, gift one to a teenager finishing pathshala, and pass them between households the way a good novel always travels.