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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

Legend · 1 telling · contested

Da, da, da: what the thunder says

Gods, men and Asuras live as students with their father Prajapati.

Prajapati

Pan-India

From the epics · 6 tellings · contested

King Shibi, the hawk and the dove

King Ushinara holds a sacrifice that rivals Indra's.

Shibi, Agni, Indra

Pan-India South India Southeast Asia