Devalok

Stories 1

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Local story · 1 telling · contested

Shiva carries earth for an old woman's puttu

The Vaigai floods and the Pandya king orders every household to repair a stretch of the bund.

Shiva, Vanthi, Sundareswarar, Madurai

South India