Thirteen books. Twelve encounters. One becoming. Start the journey Sarpa and Siṃhī: The Beginning.This volume contains two complete stories. The first is a picture book, illustrated on every spread — original black-and-white drawings accompanying each page of the young lioness Siṃhī as she finds her way through grief and fear toward courage and home. The second is a longer tale — the door into her journey of becoming — available now.

Siṃhī: The Becoming · The Complete English Literary Edition · all 13 books: Written and Illustrated by Mateo Rose — The Sanskrit lives inside it, carried the way it has always been carried: in the sound before the meaning.

A father reading to a daughter. A mother to a son. A seeker reading alone at night who finds, in the young lioness, something they recognize — available now.

‍It All Begins Here. A First Sanskrit Reader in the Hitopadeśa Tradition — Siṃhī Series Book 1. ‍Sarpa and Siṃhī is a story that teaches. Written in the tradition of the Hitopadeśa and Pañcatantra, this illustrated Sanskrit reader follows a young lioness through loss, fear, and the slow kindling of wisdom, while introducing readers to the beauty and structure of classical Sanskrit.

Sim̥hī and Kūrma: Gaṇeśa’s Race Around the World - Book 2: A First Sanskrit Reader in the Hitopadeśa Tradition. The cave is inside you. A Sanskrit reader with full vocabulary apparatus — coming soon.

Mūṣikā is Gaṇeśa's vāhana — small, warm, quick, the perfect view from ground level. She was there for the birth, the beheading, the elephant head. She tells it as someone who was shaking with wonder and never fully recovered. She tells the stories of the divine children: Gaṇeśa, remade; Kṛṣṇa, born in the dark.

The divine as child. — Coming soon.

Vāsuki is the king of serpents — the one who coils at Śiva's throat, the one who wound himself around the churning mountain while the gods and demons pulled and the ocean gave up its poison. He tells the young lioness about the moment Śiva drank the poison so the world would not end. He did not swallow it. He held it still.

Stillness as power. — Coming soon.

Bhīma is the strongest of the Pāṇḍavas — a man who can uproot mountains. And there is an old monkey sleeping across the path who will not move.

Strength meeting greater strength. — Coming soon.

Pakṣikā is a small brown bird — sacred in the oldest hymns, the watcher-bird, the one who sees. She tells the young lioness about Ekalavya: the boy who learned alone in the forest, who built a clay teacher from devotion.

Injustice. — Coming soon.

A forest fire threatens the valley. The young lioness goes toward it.

Kālī is subtle, beautiful, and terrible. She is not spectacle. This is the book of fire. — Coming soon.

Karṇa is the greatest archer alive and no one knows who he is. The young lioness sits with him at a high overlook, and his story comes out the way stories come out between two beings sitting in the same silence.

Identity. — Coming soon.

Garuḍa — king of birds, divine vehicle of Viṣṇu, enormous, ancient, grieving — carries a story inside his wings. A story about Jaṭāyu: the old vulture who flew alone against Rāvaṇa to protect Sītā.

Devotion unto death. — Coming soon.

Abhimanyu learned how to enter the Chakravyūha — the spinning circle formation — while still in the womb. He never learned how to leave. He entered anyway.

Endurance and doomed courage. — Coming soon.

Kṛṣṇa does not come to the young lioness with philosophy. He comes as a charioteer, while something she loves is moving toward its end — and she still has a choice.

This is the teaching. The one the whole series has been moving toward.

Why you act. — Coming soon.

Sāvitrī chose her husband knowing Nārada's warning. She chose anyway. And when the day came, she followed where she had to follow.

She is the last companion before the becoming. She tells the young lioness about the source beneath the source.

The original mantra. — Coming soon.

Siṃhī meets no one. There is no companion, no frame story, no embedded tale. After twelve encounters — the thirteenth book has no companion.

She is the story — Coming soon.