Devalok

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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Tradition: All traditions · clear

From the epics · 6 tellings · contested

Savitri and Satyavan

Savitri marries a prince fated to die in a year, follows Yama when he takes him and wins his life back with her words.

Savitri (princess of Madra), Satyavan, Yama, Narada

East India Pan-India South India West India

From the epics · 1 telling · contested

Sudarshana, son of Agni, conquers Death

Sudarshana, son of Agni and the princess of Mahishmati, vows to conquer Death as a householder through hospitality.

Agni, Sudarshana, princess of Mahishmati, Mrityu (Death)

Pan-India

From the epics · 1 telling

The Death-Night seen in the sleeping camp

Ashvatthama attacks the sleeping camp of the Pandava army by night.

Kalaratri

Pan-India