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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

Origin · 6 tellings · contested

The birth of Ganesha

Parvati wants a guard of her own and shapes a boy from the paste on her body.

Ganesha, Parvati, Shiva, Shani

East India Pan-India

Legend · 8 tellings · contested

The fifth head and the skull that would not fall

Brahma grows a fifth head, and with it pride or a false word.

Brahma, Shiva, Bhairava, Bhikshatana

East India North India Pan-India South India