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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Temple legend · 5 tellings · contested
Samba is cured by the Sun and founds his temple
Samba, proud of his beauty, slights the sage Narada.
Legend · 2 tellings · contested
Subandhu's spirit is called back
Singers steady themselves and call a man's spirit back for sense, strength and life.
Legend · 3 tellings · contested
The frogs who sing when the rain comes
Rigveda 7.103 praises the frogs who wake at the first rain and compares them to chanting priests; in Assam a frog wedding is held to bring late rain.