Devalok

Stories 4

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

Indra's strange birth

A dialogue hymn in which the unborn Indra refuses the usual way of birth, is hidden by his mother, deserted by the gods and brought Soma by a falcon.

Indra, Vishnu, Tvashtri, Vritra

Pan-India

Legend · 1 telling · contested

Pushan finds the hidden king

A three-verse fragment: Pushan finds the king who was hidden in a cave and brings him like a lost animal.

Pushan, Soma

Pan-India

Legend · 3 tellings · contested

Vac is sent to the Gandharvas for Soma

Speech is the price paid to the Gandharvas for Soma, and returns to the gods because they sing.

Vac, Soma, The Gandharvas, Vishvavasu

Pan-India

Legend · 4 tellings · contested

Vayu wins the first cup of Soma

Why the first Soma cup of the morning pressing belongs to Vayu and only a quarter of it to Indra.

Vayu, Indra, Prajapati, Vritra

Pan-India