Devalok

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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Tradition: Folk · clear

Legend · 4 tellings · contested

Kama burnt by the third eye

Taraka can die only to a son of Shiva, and Shiva sits in grief and meditation after Sati.

Kamadeva, Shiva, Parvati, Rati

Pan-India South India

Legend · 5 tellings · contested

Parvati wins Shiva

Sati is reborn as the daughter of Himavat and Mena and grows up loving Shiva.

Parvati, Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu

North India Pan-India South India West India