Devalok

Stories 6

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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From the epics · 2 tellings · contested

Agni guards Mahishmati

Sahadeva, collecting tribute for Yudhishthira's sacrifice, attacks King Nila at Mahishmati.

Agni, Nila of Mahishmati, Sahadeva, Duryodhana of Mahishmati

Central India

Legend · 3 tellings · contested

Saraswati the river

The Rigveda's hymn portrait of the river Sarasvati, and the Mahabharata's account of the river that vanishes and comes when called.

Saraswati, Vasishtha, Balarama, Brahma

Pan-India

Legend · 2 tellings · contested

Shyavashva sees the Maruts

King Rathaviti chooses Archananas as priest; his son Shyavashva comes too.

Shyavashva, The Maruts, Rathaviti Darbhya, Archananas

Pan-India

Legend · 3 tellings · contested

The Devi Sukta: Vac describes herself

A hymn portrait of Vac from Rigveda 10.125, with what Rigveda 10.71, 8.100 and 1.164 say of her.

Vac, Brihaspati

Pan-India

Legend · 3 tellings · contested

Yajnavalkya receives the Yajus from the Sun

Vaishampayana misses the sages' meeting on Meru and incurs guilt; he kills his sister's child by accident.

Yajnavalkya, Vaishampayana, Surya, Saraswati

Pan-India

Festival story · 4 tellings · contested

Yudhishthira praises the Sun and receives the copper vessel

Brahmins follow the Pandavas into exile; Yudhishthira cannot feed them.

Yudhishthira, Dhaumya, Surya, Draupadi

East India Pan-India