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Legend · 2 tellings · contested
Mandavya on the stake
A sage impaled for a crime he did not commit curses the god of justice to be born as Vidura.
Legend · 6 tellings · contested
The child Hanuman leaps at the Sun and later studies with him
The hungry child sees the rising sun, thinks it a fruit and leaps.