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Temple legend · 4 tellings · contested
Saraswati's temples: Sharada in Kashmir, Basar, Koothanur
How the goddess of learning came to be seen at her few temples: Shandilya's journey in Kashmir, Vyasa's sand images at Basar, the poet's village at Koothanur, and her spring festival in Bengal.
Legend · 6 tellings · contested
The child Hanuman leaps at the Sun and later studies with him
The hungry child sees the rising sun, thinks it a fruit and leaps.