Stories 4
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
✕ night
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Legend · 1 telling
Brahma praises the Goddess as the Great Night
Madhu and Kaitabha spring up and seek to kill Brahma while Vishnu sleeps.
Legend · 3 tellings · contested
Dawn and Night, the two sisters
Before sunrise Night gives up her place to Dawn.
Legend · 3 tellings · contested
Night colours the unborn Parvati
The gods cannot defeat Taraka; only Shiva's son can.
Legend · 3 tellings · contested
The hymn to Night
Night approaches, looking out with all her eyes, wearing all her glories.