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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Origin · 4 tellings · contested
Diti's vow and the birth of the Maruts
Diti's sons are killed by the gods.
From the epics · 2 tellings · contested
The Yaksha's questions
Dharma, disguised as a Yaksha guarding a lake, strikes down four Pandavas and restores them when Yudhishthira answers his questions and chooses fairly.
Legend · 5 tellings · contested
Trita in the well
Trita calls on the gods from a well and is freed; later texts add the brothers who left him there.