Devalok

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
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Legend · 1 telling · contested

Mathava carries Agni east

King Mathava holds Agni in his mouth and will not speak.

Agni, Mathava of Videgha

Pan-India

Legend · 5 tellings · contested

Pushan at Surya's wedding

Pushan takes the hand of the Sun's daughter and leads her from her father's house; the verse becomes part of every household wedding.

Pushan, Suryā, the Sun's daughter, Soma, The Ashvins

Pan-India

Legend · 2 tellings · contested

The Child of the Waters

A hymn portrait of Apam Napat, and his place in the fetching of the Soma water.

Apam Napat, Apas, Agni, Bhrigu

Pan-India

Legend · 3 tellings · contested

The three black bricks of Nirriti

The gods build the first hearth, climb it and see only impenetrable darkness.

Nirriti

Pan-India