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 · 5 tellings · contested

Ahalya, Indra and Gautama's curse

Indra comes to Ahalya in the shape of her husband Gautama; both are cursed; Rama's arrival releases her.

Indra, Ahalya, Gautama, Rama

East India Pan-India South India

From the epics · 4 tellings · contested

Svaha, Agni and the birth of Skanda

Indra, needing a general, rescues Devasena and asks Brahma for a husband fit for her.

Agni, Svaha, Kartikeya, Indra

Pan-India

From the epics · 1 telling · contested

The hunter and Arjuna

In exile Arjuna does austerities in the Himalaya to win weapons for the coming war.

Shiva, Kirata, Arjuna, Muka

Pan-India