The Mahabharata and the Ramayana, the India’s two great epics, are recorded in Sanskrit, which is the language of Indian educated classes. The Puranas, the most popular forms of Hindu literature, preserve the myths and legends of the Hindu gods. That transmitted orally for centuries, written down after 500 C.E.
We will find the difference between medieval Christian and Hinduism when seeing their values respectively. The former criticizes erotic sensuality, the latter regards the physical union of male and female as a symbolic if the eternal mingling of flesh and spirit, which would lead believers out of reincarnation.