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
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Origin · 3 tellings · contested
Soma, Rohini and the waning moon
Soma marries many sisters and favours Rohini; a wasting illness follows; the cure fixes the monthly waning and waxing of the moon.
Legend · 2 tellings · contested
Vasishtha pleads with Varuna
A hymn portrait: the seer Vasishtha, ill and estranged, asks Varuna what his sin was and recalls the day the god took him out in his boat.