Devalok

Stories 3

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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Legend · 4 tellings · contested

Manu, the fish and the flood

A small fish comes into Manu's hands in his washing water.

Manu, Prajapati, Brahma, Vishnu

The Himalaya Pan-India South India

Local story · 1 telling · contested

Shiva carries earth for an old woman's puttu

The Vaigai floods and the Pandya king orders every household to repair a stretch of the bund.

Shiva, Vanthi, Sundareswarar, Madurai

South India

Temple legend · 1 telling · contested

The image that came from Vaikuntha to Guruvayur

An image made by Vishnu himself passes from Brahma to King Sutapas to Uddhava, who has Brihaspati and Vayu install it in Kerala after Dwarka sinks.

Guruvayurappan, Vishnu, Brahma, Sutapas

South India