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Tantric Hindu goddess and one of the ten Mahavidyas
Verious forms of God Ganesha of Hinduism
Hindu deity and combined avatar of the Trimurti (Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva)
A wife asks the goddess how her husband might go blind. A voice answers from behind the image — and it is not the goddess.
Nobody will marry the king's three-breasted daughter, so a blind man and a hunchback take the dowry and sail away with her. Far from home, poison is stirred.
A ruined merchant is told in a dream how to turn a visitor into gold. A barber watches him do it, understands nothing, and tries it on everyone he can invite home.
A woman takes her old husband's money and runs off with a stranger, who offers to carry it over the river first. On the bank, a jackal has just lost two things too.
Two men are each set an absurd condition by an angry wife, and each agrees. In open court the next morning, one of them explains the other's shaved head.
A robbed mendicant begs a night's shelter and watches his hosts deceive one another — a wife, a stand-in at the pillar, and a village court that examines nothing.
A weaver in love above his station has a friend build him a flying wooden Garuda, and arrives at a princess's window as a god. Then a war begins in that god's name.
A scholar turned thief spends months earning four traders' trust so he can rob them. In a forest, surrounded by robbers, he steps forward first.
Thrown out for paying a hundred rupees for a book with one verse in it, a young man answers every question anyone asks him with that verse — and it answers for him.
A young wife who cannot bear to look at her elderly husband throws her arms around him one night. A thief is standing in the corner of the room.
A husband hides under his own bed to catch his wife out. Her foot brushes him, and she improvises a speech that has him carrying her on his shoulders in gratitude.
A man abandons his family for his wife, then gives her half his own lifespan to bring her back from the dead. She repays him at a well, and then in a king's court.
At the end he was calling his son, not God — the most argued-over and most reassuring story in the Bhagavata.
A dwarf brahmin asked for three paces of land, and the most generous of kings would not refuse him — even when his own guru told him to.
A cobbler in Kashi skipped the pilgrimage because he had promised a customer a pair of shoes — and a proverb was born that day.
Hindu goddess, daughter of Daksha and consort of Chandra
Traditional religious and cultural fairs of the Konkan region
Hindu Festival
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