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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

Tradition: Shaiva · clear

How a tradition frames it · 1 telling · contested

Who made whom: the Shiva Purana's creation frame

Shiva creates Vishnu from the left of his body and Brahma from the right (through the lotus from Vishnu's navel), assigns creation, preservation and destruction, and stands beyond all three.

Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, Rudra

Pan-India