
The people you love are your world.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
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The people you love are your world.
From the original text · Shiva Purana

We light the way home for people we love.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana
A poor friend, a torn cloth, and a palace that opened.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
Parvati makes a boy from turmeric paste.
From the original text · Shiva Purana

The churning, and a goddess on a lotus.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana


A prison, a storm, a basket across the Yamuna.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Curiosity is good; listen when someone who loves you calls.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana
Was it a mango?
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

A ring dropped from a branch.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana
A broken tusk for a pen.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
A brahmin's greeting under the Rishyamukha hill.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

Nandi at the door, the snake and the mouse who get along.
From the original text · Shiva Purana

A lamp in a clay pot, a circle around it.
From the original text · Devi Mahatmya (Durga Saptashati)
Yashoda looks into a small mouth and sees everything.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Share the sweet thing; love stays; ask next time.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
The poisoned pool and a snake who bows.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
Seven days under a mountain umbrella.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
How Hanuman was born to Anjana and the wind.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana
What he found where his hut had been.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Even small help matters.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana
A garland for the quiet one.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
Choosing the good from the mixed.
From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana
The river makes way for Vasudeva's basket.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
Lunch in the forest, shared from every hand.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
Seeing in the dark, in Bengal.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Writing in rice on Vijayadashami.
From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana
Two brothers, one blue and one fair.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
Why the biggest god rides the smallest friend.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Why the door is open and the lamp is lit.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
Books at her feet for a day.
From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana
Why Hanuman cannot be hurt by wind, water or fire.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

A laugh, a lesson, and a moon that learned some manners.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
A folk tale of one small diya.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
The first mornings in Gokul.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
A thread of cloth on Krishna's finger.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
The rishis' gentle curse.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana
Twenty-one modaks, one very full belly.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Reading while flying backwards.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana
The race, the parents, the promise.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
A friendship made under a tree.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana
A rich man learns what fills a belly.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
A baby's foot and a broken cart.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
Every hurt to a creature is a hurt to Ma.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Ten days of a guest in the house.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Trinavarta, and a baby too heavy to carry.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
A rope always two fingers short.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
A mortar dragged between two trees, and two brothers set free.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
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