Devalok

Stories 4

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
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Tradition: All traditions · clear

Legend · 7 tellings · contested

Chyavana made young again

Chyavana is left behind on earth, decrepit and ghostlike.

The Ashvins, Chyavana, Sukanya, Sharyati

North India Pan-India

Legend · 4 tellings · contested

Indra, Namuchi and the foam

Bound by an oath not to kill Namuchi by day or night, with anything dry or wet, Indra kills him at daybreak with the foam of the waters.

Indra, Namuchi, The Ashvins, Saraswati

North India Pan-India

Temple legend · 5 tellings · contested

Samba is cured by the Sun and founds his temple

Samba, proud of his beauty, slights the sage Narada.

Samba, Krishna, Narada, Surya

East India North India Pan-India

Legend · 5 tellings · contested

The hymns to the Waters

A hymn portrait of the Waters as the Rigveda addresses them, with the living uses of the same words on the riverbank.

Apas, Varuna, Indra, Apam Napat

North India Pan-India South India