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Stories
Kathā that teach dharma — myths, legends, and sacred narrative.
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How the 181 sacred stories are distributed — by region, tradition, and era.
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Primary oral stage est. 8th–5th to 5th–4th c. BCE; later stages to 3rd c. CE; Treta Yuga mythological
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Akka Mahadevi's Naked Devotion
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All Eight Arms Ready
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Andal's Bridal Mysticism
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Arjuna's Own Temple
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Ashoka's Conversion at Kalinga
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Belur & Halebidu — Soapstone That Behaved Like Wax
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Dhruva's Steadfast Penance
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Dilwara — Marble Carved Into Lace at Mount Abu
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Eknāth's Water
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Eleven Thousand Hands — Akshardham, a Temple Raised in Five Years
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Fifty-One Pieces of Heaven
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Ganapatya — The Worship That Makes God the Obstacle
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Ganga Avataran — The Descent of the Ganges
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Guru Nanak's Udasis
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Hanumān's Mountain
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He Did What He Said
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He Stayed Because He Wanted To
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He Stopped Here
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Heaven Seated in a Village
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I Will Send All Seventy-Four
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Is Wealth Sweeter than the Lord?
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Kaṇṇagi's City in Flames
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Kannappa's Eyes
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Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār's Fiery Form
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Khajuraho — The Sermon in Sandstone That Was Almost Lost
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Koodal Azhagar — The God Who Sat in Madurai's Heart
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Kṛṣṇa Lifts Govardhana
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Lokayata — The School That Argued There Is No God
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Lumbini — The Garden an Emperor Named
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Mahavira's Great Renunciation
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Markandeya Conquers Death
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Milarepa's Revenge & Redemption
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Mirabai's Songs
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Narasiṁha and Prahlāda
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Nine Shrines in a Tiger Forest — Ahobilam, Where the Pillar Split
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