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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 94 South India 66 West India 30 East India 22 North India 15 The Himalaya 12 Northeast India 5 Southeast Asia 4 Central India 4

Temple legend · 1 telling · contested

Gautama's penance and the Godavari

The sage Gautama and his wife Ahalya live on Brahmagiri in a long drought.

Gautama, Shiva, Ganga, Trimbakeshwar

West India

Temple legend · 3 tellings · contested

The demon of the Sahyadri and the Bhima river

A demon oppresses the gods and men from the Sahyadri hills.

Shiva, The Tripura demons, Bhimasura, Kamarupa

Northeast India West India