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 95 South India 67 West India 30 East India 22 North India 15 The Himalaya 12 Northeast India 5 Southeast Asia 4 Central India 4
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Temple legend · 1 telling · contested

Kumbakonam: Brahma loses the Vedas and wins them back

Brahma boasts that he alone can create.

Brahma, Vishnu, Lakshmi, Saraswati

South India

Temple legend · 1 telling · contested

Tirupattur: Brahma rewrites his own fate

Brahma grows proud and Shiva takes away his fifth head and his power to create.

Brahma, Shiva, Patanjali

South India