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 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
✕ abandonment
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Legend · 3 tellings · contested
Bhujyu, son of Tugra, saved at sea
Bhujyu is abandoned in the middle of the ocean.
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.