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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: Vaishnava · clear

Temple legend · 1 telling · contested

Lakshmi as the badri tree at Badrinath

Vishnu meditates in the Himalaya while Lakshmi shelters him as a badri tree; the sages Nara and Narayana choose the site; Shankara recovers the image from the hot spring.

Badrinarayan, Vishnu, Lakshmi, Nara and Narayana

The Himalaya