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Legend
Local story
Folk tale
From the epics
Festival story
Temple legend
In stone and bronze
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Pan-India 95
South India 67
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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Folk tale · 1 telling · contested
Brahm Baba of Mithila, a false friend
Every Maithil village keeps a Brahma Sthan, a peepal or banyan to the west.
Festival story · 6 tellings · contested
Why the night of Shiva is kept
A hunter named Gurudruha, or Lubdhaka, is caught in the forest by night and climbs a bilva tree to wait for game.