Stories 3
All kinds
Origin
Legend
Local story
Folk tale
From the epics
Festival story
Temple legend
In stone and bronze
How a tradition frames it
Everywhere
Pan-India 240
South India 81
West India 37
East India 37
North India 28
The Himalaya 17
Northeast India 8
Southeast Asia 6
Central India 5
Sri Lanka 1
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From the epics · 2 tellings · contested
Angiras takes Agni's place
Yudhishthira asks Markandeya why Angiras once carried the offerings as fire.
From the epics · 1 telling · contested
Madri calls the Ashvins: the birth of Nakula and Sahadeva
Madri, childless, asks Pandu to ask Kunti to share her invocation.
From the epics · 1 telling
Saraswati carries Vasishtha and is cursed to run with blood
Vishvamitra orders the river Sarasvati to bring Vasishtha to him so that he can kill him.