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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Legend · 1 telling
Brahma praises the Goddess as the Great Night
Madhu and Kaitabha spring up and seek to kill Brahma while Vishnu sleeps.
Legend · 2 tellings · contested
The hymn to the Earth
Atharvaveda 12.1 praises the Earth in sixty-three verses as mother; the Rigveda has a three-verse hymn and a funeral verse.
Legend · 3 tellings · contested
Vishvamitra and the rivers Vipash and Shutudri
A singer asks two flooded rivers to let the Bharatas cross, and they answer and bow.