Devalok

Stories 4

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 · 3 tellings · contested

Brihaspati takes the form of Shukra

Shukra leaves the defeated Asuras to win mantras from Shiva that Brihaspati does not have.

Brihaspati, Shukra, Jayanti, Indra

Pan-India

Legend · 2 tellings · contested

Indra slights Brihaspati

Indra sits enthroned with Shachi while all heaven praises him.

Brihaspati, Indra, Brahma, Shukra

Pan-India South India

From the epics · 2 tellings · contested

Kacha and Devayani

Shukra revives every slain Asura; Brihaspati cannot do the same for the gods.

Kacha, Devayani, Shukra, Brihaspati

East India Pan-India

From the epics · 2 tellings · contested

Sarasvata keeps the Vedas through the drought

The river's foster son alone remembers the Vedas after a twelve-year drought and teaches sixty thousand sages.

Saraswati, Sarasvata, Dadhichi, Indra

Pan-India