Nageshwar Jyotirlinga – Story of Female Demon Daruka
Nageshwar Jyotirlinga is situated at about 25km away from Dwarka. Here, Shiva is worshiped as Nageshwar and Parvati as Nageshwari. It is also famous that Lord Krishna used to …
Category: Short Stories
Vrishabh Avatar – Fight Between Shiva and Narayana
Once Goddess Lakshmi argued with Vishnu over the matter of who resides inside his heart. Vishnu said that Mahadev resides in half part of his heart. Lakshmi had no …
Grihapati – Incarnation of Shiva | Slaying of Durgasur
There was a sage named Vishwanath. He and his wife, Suchismati, were doing a hard austerity of Shiva from a long time in Kashi. They were very sad because …
Birth Story of Kartikeya, Ashok Sundari and Ganesha
Birth Story of Kartikeya A powerful demon Tadkasur did great austerity of Shiva and got the boon of getting killed by only the son of Shiva and Shakti. He …
Jalandhar – Demon Born from Third Eye of Shiva
A demon Trishira was doing an austerity of Shiva and Indra killed him during his penance. Selfish Indra thought that he will ask his throne from Mahadev as boon. …
How Rat Became the Mount of Ganesha?
There was a Gandharv (divine musician of heaven) in the court of Indra whose name was Cronch. He was the main gandharv who loved his music more than anything. …
Ghushmeshwar Jyotirlinga – Story of Ghushma and Sudeha
Ghushmeshwar Jyotirlinga is situated in Aurangabad, Maharashtra. There was a Brahmin Sudharm who lived with his wife Sudeha. They were the devotees of Shiva. They lived a comfortable life …
Devodas – Human who Banned Deities in Kashi | Devodaseshwar Linga
The king of Kashi, Ripunjaya was once donating money for constructing temples, marriages of poor and lot more things. He heard that people started calling him a deity in …
Loknath – An Incarnation of Pashupatinath
With the time, the world lost humanity and kindness towards animals. To enlighten this world with the importance of animals, Pashupatinath Shiva took the form of Loknath. Manika – …
Arunasur – Demon who captured 5 Elements Deities
The 5 element (Fire, Air, Water, Moon, Sun) deities were embarrassed by Indra and they left heaven in search of another place. Why deities were embarrassed? Read the story …