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Stories 2

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 95 South India 67 West India 30 East India 22 North India 15 The Himalaya 12 Northeast India 5 Southeast Asia 4 Central India 4
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Tradition: Shakta · clear

Origin · 5 tellings · contested

How Shiva became half woman

Brahma makes a world of male beings that cannot multiply.

Ardhanarishvara, Shiva, Parvati, Bhringi

East India Pan-India South India

Origin · 6 tellings · contested

Saraswati: daughter, consort, or both

Brahma's body splits into a male and a female half.

Brahma, Saraswati, Svayambhuva Manu, Kamadeva

Pan-India