Parvati makes a boy from turmeric paste.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Matching stories: 19
Parvati makes a boy from turmeric paste.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
A rabbit sheltering under an elephant in a forest fire.
From the original text · Jain moral tales
A broken tusk for a pen.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
An elephant, a bull, a lion, a garland of flowers.
From the original text · Kalpa Sutra
A trunk full of water.
From the original text · Oral tradition
A door, a father, a new head, told gently.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Why the biggest god rides the smallest friend.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Hati aru tunituni.
From the original text · Oral tradition
Guruvayur Keshavan.
From the original text · Aithihyamala
Twenty-one modaks, one very full belly.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Each felt one part of the elephant.
From the original text · Jain moral tales
The race, the parents, the promise.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
The ant and the elephant.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
A rich man learns what fills a belly.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
A story Birbal told the court.
From the original text · Oral tradition
Ten days of a guest in the house.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Why the elephant did not pull.
From the original text · Oral tradition
An elephant who called out, and was answered.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
A question that opens the Ganesha shelf.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
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