To use the language of art, the one school that myths do not belong to is realism. Myths use techniques of surrealism, impressionism and cubism, so to speak, to bring out the many dimensions of the verities of a culture that a realistic depiction would fail to reveal. Myths send your imagination soaring. They engage your nine emotions, move from sense to sensibility, seep into your moral being and set up scarcely noticed signposts in your mental universe. Above all, they entertain.
Indian mythology is one of the richest in the world.
Hindu, Buddhist and Jain myths hail from the Indian subcontinent. The amazing variety of the stories and their subjects is matched only by the amazing ability of unknown codifiers of myths to link up the myriad tales into a unified whole. The Mahabharata, everyone knows, contains many tales. It is not possible to reproduce the ocean of Indian mythology in the magnificence of its entirety.