Stories 3
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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Legend · 5 tellings · contested
Aditi's earrings and the killing of Naraka
Naraka of Pragjyotisha steals Aditi's earrings; Krishna kills him and returns them, and Aditi blesses Krishna and Satyabhama.
Legend · 3 tellings · contested
The wedding of Surya and Soma
Surya, daughter of the Sun, is given to Soma with the Ashvins as groomsmen; the Rigveda's wedding hymn, and the Brahmana's race for the wedding recitation.
Legend · 2 tellings · contested
Vishvavasu is asked to leave the wedding
In the wedding verses of the Rigveda and Atharvaveda the Gandharva Vishvavasu, second of the bride's three divine guardians, is praised and asked to rise and seek an unmarried girl.