Devalok

Stories 7

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

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 · 1 telling · contested

Atri in the burning pit

Atri, a seer honoured by the five tribes, is cast down into a narrow, burning pit by a hostile Dasyu.

The Ashvins, Atri

Pan-India

Legend · 3 tellings · contested

Bhujyu, son of Tugra, saved at sea

Bhujyu is abandoned in the middle of the ocean.

The Ashvins, Bhujyu

Pan-India

Legend · 4 tellings · contested

Ghosha calls the Ashvins

Ghosha has grown old unmarried in her father's house.

The Ashvins, Ghosha, Kakshivat, Bhujyu

Pan-India

Legend · 4 tellings · contested

Manu, the fish and the flood

A small fish comes into Manu's hands in his washing water.

Manu, Prajapati, Brahma, Vishnu

The Himalaya Pan-India South India

Legend · 5 tellings · contested

Trita in the well

Trita calls on the gods from a well and is freed; later texts add the brothers who left him there.

Trita Aptya, Brihaspati, Ekata, Dvita

North India Pan-India

Legend · 1 telling

Varuna's servant seizes Nanda

Nanda bathes in the Yamuna before dawn after an Ekadashi fast and is carried off to Varuna; Krishna goes to Varuna's court and brings him home.

Varuna, Krishna

Pan-India