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Everywhere Pan-India 94 South India 66 West India 30 East India 22 North India 15 The Himalaya 12 Northeast India 5 Southeast Asia 4 Central India 4
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Legend · 1 telling · contested

Brahma, Sandhya and the curse on Kama

Brahma's mind-born daughter Sandhya is so beautiful that Kama tests his new arrows on the gathering.

Brahma, Sandhya, Kamadeva, Shiva

Pan-India

Legend · 4 tellings · contested

Kama burnt by the third eye

Taraka can die only to a son of Shiva, and Shiva sits in grief and meditation after Sati.

Kamadeva, Shiva, Parvati, Rati

Pan-India South India

Legend · 5 tellings · contested

Parvati wins Shiva

Sati is reborn as the daughter of Himavat and Mena and grows up loving Shiva.

Parvati, Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu

North India Pan-India South India West India

Legend · 2 tellings

The gatekeepers who chose three hostile births

Vaikuntha's doorkeepers bar the Kumaras, are cursed to be born away from Vishnu, and choose three lives as his enemies over seven as his devotees.

Jaya and Vijaya, The Kumaras, Vishnu, Hiranyakashipu

Pan-India South India