Stories 7
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
✕ night
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From the epics · 1 telling
Arjuna and the Gandharva Angaraparna at the Ganga
A Gandharva king bars the Pandavas from the Ganga at night; Arjuna burns his chariot, spares him at Yudhishthira's word, and receives the seeing-science, horses and the advice to take a priest.
Legend · 1 telling
Brahma praises the Goddess as the Great Night
Madhu and Kaitabha spring up and seek to kill Brahma while Vishnu sleeps.
Legend · 3 tellings · contested
Dawn and Night, the two sisters
Before sunrise Night gives up her place to Dawn.
Legend · 3 tellings · contested
Night colours the unborn Parvati
The gods cannot defeat Taraka; only Shiva's son can.
From the epics · 1 telling
The Death-Night seen in the sleeping camp
Ashvatthama attacks the sleeping camp of the Pandava army by night.
Legend · 3 tellings · contested
The hymn to Night
Night approaches, looking out with all her eyes, wearing all her glories.
Origin · 2 tellings · contested
Yami's grief and the making of night
Yami cannot stop mourning Yama because there is only day; the gods create night so that a morrow can come.