Stories 2
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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
✕ thunder
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Legend · 1 telling · contested
Da, da, da: what the thunder says
Gods, men and Asuras live as students with their father Prajapati.
Legend · 3 tellings · contested
Parjanya brings the rain
Rigveda 5.83 follows a storm from first thunder to the request that the rain stop; Atharvaveda 4.15 is a charm to summon late rains.