Indian folklore

Indian folk deity

Aesop's fable

Bhojpuri folklore

Aesop's fable

Waghya (meaning tiger in Marathi) was a mixed-breed pet dog of Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, known as the epitome of loyalty and eternal devotion. After Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's death, he is said to have jumped into his master's funeral pyre and immolated himself.

sindhi and Rajasthani folklore

collection of folk tales and fairy tales of Bengal

Indian folktale

one of the Jataka tales

fable

"Chauharmal" or "Chuharmal" or "Veer Chauharmal" was a folk hero who was later apotheosized by the members of Dusadh caste. The story of Chauharmal within Dusadh folklore is an empowering message which gives the Dalit community a sense of victory over upper caste Rajputs.

legendary female figure in India

Indian fairy tale

folk form of storytelling from India

romantic tale

legendary Indian king

Indian fairy tale

Indian Raja and saint

folklore of Meitei people

collection of allegorical stories by Amir Khusro written in Persian in the early 13th century

folk legend from Karnataka, India

kashmiri folktale

Indian fairy tale

thumb|right|250px|The Sonva Mandap in the Chunar fort, the place, where according to a popular belief, [[Alha married Sonva]] The term Alha Khand is used to refer to poetic works in Bhojpuri and Bagheli and other regional languages which consists of a number of ballads describing the brave acts of two 12th-century commanders in chief from rajput clan ( Alha and Udal ), generals working for king Paramardi-Deva (Parmal) of Mahoba (1163–1202 CE) against Prithviraj Chauhan (1166–1192 CE) of Ajmer. The works have been entirely handed down by oral tradition and presently exist in many recensions, wh

Bangladeshi writer

A folk art

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Persian fairy tale

folklore from Punjab

an Indian fairy tale

folk song sung by Gond women from the state of Chhattisgarh

thumb|upright=0.85|Title page of the Latin edition of The Fables of Syntipas, 1781 Syntipas is the purported author of the Seven Wise Masters, a cycle of stories of Indian and Persian origin popular in medieval literature. He first appears in Arabic renditions as an Indian philosopher who lived around 100 BC.

book by Jogesh Das

a flying vehicle in the traditional folktales

Buddhist collection of stories

The saga of the 2nd line of reincarnation in the Moirang kingdom in ancient Meitei Manipuri mythology

In Hindu and Jain traditions, the muṇḍana ceremony marks a boy's entry into formal education, involving the tying of a sacred thread around the torso and a girdle made of munja grass around the waist, typically at the age of seven. He is known as Munjya when he puts on the munja grass girdle.

Bengali fairytales

15 folktales from South India