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
✕ cattle
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Legend · 3 tellings · contested
Brihaspati breaks open the cave of Vala
The cows stand shut in a mountain, 'in bonds of falsehood', held by Vala.
Legend · 3 tellings · contested
Sarama and the Panis
The Panis hold a herd in a rock stronghold beyond the Rasa.
Legend · 4 tellings · contested
The cows of Dawn
The dawns raise their banner in the east and come on like the mother cows, bright red.