Naimisha Press · नैमिष प्रेस
The Puranas, retold as illustrated chronicles
पुराण — चित्रकथा के रूप में, सम्पूर्ण
Complete and faithful, page by page and verse by verse — in English, Hindi and Marathi. Ved Vyasa is the author; we are the clearing where the telling takes place.
The sacrificial ground at Naimisharanya — a plate from Book One
The Chronicles · गाथाएँ
One press. Many scriptures. Each told whole.
Every Chronicle follows its text’s own structure — skandha by skandha, samhita by samhita — from the first verse to the last, in three languages.
The Srimad Bhagavata Chronicles
भागवत गाथा
The complete Srimad Bhagavata, all twelve skandhas, in eight volumes: Book Zero and the seven days of the saptaha.
Shiv Mahapuran Chronicles
शिव महापुराण गाथा
The Shiv Mahapuran, told whole, samhita by samhita. Its first plates have not been made.
Tell me when it begins ›Devi Puran Chronicles
देवी पुराण गाथा
The Devi Puran, told whole. A name on the shelf until the Bhagavata is well under way.
Tell me when it begins ›The Srimad Bhagavata Chronicles
Book Zero, then seven days.
The Mahatmya prescribes hearing the Bhagavata in seven days. Our eight volumes keep that practice: Book Zero is the charter, and Books One to Seven are the seven days.
- 0 Book Zero Mahatmya Why the Bhagavata must be heard in this age Bound
- 1 Book One 1.1 – 3.22 The question at Naimisharanya, Shuka’s answer, and the making of the world In production
- 2 Book Two 3.23 – 5.14 Kapila’s teaching to his mother, then the kings and the renouncers — Dhruva, Prithu, Rishabha, Bharata Planned
- 3 Book Three 5.15 – 7.15 The worlds below, and the boy who would not stop — Ajamila, Vritrasura, Prahlada and Nrisimha Planned
- 4 Book Four 8.1 – 10.3 The churning, and a child born at midnight — Gajendra, the ocean, Vaman, the dynasties Planned
- 5 Book Five 10.4 – 10.54 Vrindavan — from Gokula to Mathura to Dwarka Planned
- 6 Book Six 10.55 – 11.13 The Dwarka years, and Uddhava’s instruction begun Planned
- 7 Book Seven 11.14 – 12.13 The departure — the Uddhava Gita completed, the end of the Yadus, Kali, and Parikshit’s death Planned
The day divisions follow the most widely kept traditional scheme; the seven-day hearing itself is prescribed in the Mahatmya, chapter six.
From the workshop
Book One · Episode One
The Seven Day Yajña
A thousand-year fire is burning in a forest, and the men tending it ask a storyteller the only question worth a thousand years — now that He has gone, where does dharma live?
- Episode One · 7 chapters Bound in proof
- Episode Two · Vyasa’s Sorrow and Narada’s Song In boards
- Episodes 3–6 Planned
Verse of the week
सत्यं परं धीमहि
satyaṃ paraṃ dhīmahi
On the highest truth, we meditate.
Srimad Bhagavata 1.1.1 · appears in Book Zero, Preamble
The Naimisha Journal
Old texts, read for this age.
Teachings from the Chronicles, the Sanatan thought behind them, and what they ask of a life lived now.
Dharma today Why devotion tires: Bhakti’s sleeping sons and an age of distraction
In the Mahatmya, Bhakti is young and her sons — knowledge and detachment — are old and will not wake. A reading for anyone whose attention has worn thin.
Verse of the week Satyaṃ paraṃ dhīmahi — the phrase that opens and closes the Bhagavata
Verse of the week. Three words at the end of the Bhagavata’s first verse, and again near its close — on the highest truth, we meditate.
Teachings Why does the Bhagavata need a preface? The Mahatmya, explained
Six chapters from the Padma Purana are read before every saptaha. What they are, why the tradition keeps them, and why our Chronicle begins with them.Begin
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