India, Oct. 9 -- It's interesting how myths from the Indian epics - the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, or other Hindu gods' stories - keep reinventing themselves for each new generation. Once oral, then eternally engraved in temple sculpture and Amar Chitra Katha comics, these myths now find themselves incorporated into another new visual vocabulary: anime and animation. Increasing amounts of Indian mythology anime and animation films and series are bringing home-grown stories back. Here are some of the great animated and anime movies and shows based on Hindu mythology.

It's fascinating to see gods and demons presented in stylised animation. These Indian mythological series and films boil down that ageless conflict between dharma and adharma...