Devalok

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 240 South India 81 West India 37 East India 37 North India 28 The Himalaya 17 Northeast India 8 Southeast Asia 6 Central India 5 Sri Lanka 1
✕ beheading cursesacrificedevotionpridebooncreationdisguisemarriagetestbirthsupremacybargaindeathfirehealingpenancerescuepilgrimagerivercraftfestivaldancegiftrivalryearthemanationfriendshipnightdesirefear

Tradition: Shaiva · clear

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