Stories 5
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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
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How a tradition frames it · 2 tellings
Krishna alone: Sankardev's Assam
Sankardev's Ekasarana keeps only Krishna as an object of worship and drops Shiva and Brahma from the cult, sung through the Kirtan Ghosha.
How a tradition frames it · 1 telling · contested
Sankardev's Krishna without an image
Sankardev's Assamese Vaishnavism worships Krishna alone through the divine name and the Bhagavata, and in its strictest order sets a book, not an image, on the altar.
Local story · 1 telling · contested
The Brahmaputra, son of Brahma
Brahma sees Amogha, wife of the sage Shantanu, and desires her.
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.
In stone and bronze · 1 telling · contested
The queen's tower at Sivasagar
The Ahom queen Ambika, wife of Siva Singha, has the Borpukhuri tank dug between 1731 and 1738.