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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Legend · 5 tellings · contested

Aditi's earrings and the killing of Naraka

Naraka of Pragjyotisha steals Aditi's earrings; Krishna kills him and returns them, and Aditi blesses Krishna and Satyabhama.

Aditi, Narakasura, Krishna, Indra

Northeast India Pan-India South India

Legend · 2 tellings · contested

Aditi's milk vow and the birth of Vamana

Aditi, grieving for her sons who have lost heaven to Bali, keeps the payovrata and Vishnu is born as her son Vamana.

Aditi, Kashyapa, Vishnu, Vamana

Pan-India

Legend · 3 tellings · contested

Saraswati the river

The Rigveda's hymn portrait of the river Sarasvati, and the Mahabharata's account of the river that vanishes and comes when called.

Saraswati, Vasishtha, Balarama, Brahma

Pan-India