The Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata are known all over the world, especially as stories of (Vaishnava) Hindu traditions, detailing the lives of the gods Rama and Krishna. Less known is the fact that other communities also have their versions of these stories. In Jainism, episodes and characters from the Mahabharata, “the great epic of India,” already figure in the Shvetambara Agamas. Most notably, in Jain universal history Krishna is the older cousin of the twenty-second Tirthankara, Lord Neminatha. In this lecture, Dr. Eva De Clercq (Ghent University) will present an overview of this Jain Mahabharata material from the Agamas onwards. She will explore the different ways in which later poets in different languages and genres integrated, transformed or otherwise engaged with these themes, illustrating these with some selected excerpts.