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Sr. No 159/01/2023

Title: Abode of Brahma

Story Collected by : Vidya Kamat

As narrated by temple Priest: Sandip Kelkar

Location: Goa


Sr. No: 158/01/2023

Title: The day of the Bhuta- Gav Palan

Story Collected by: Vidya kamat

As narrated by Makarand Kelkar

Location: Sindhudurg, Maharashtra


Sr. No:157/01/2023

Festival of thieves_ Chorutsava

Story Collected by Vidya Kamat

As narrated by village Elder: Rajaram Gawas

Location: Goa

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Sr. 156/02/2022

Title: When Goddess comes walking

Story Collected by Sunil Sharma

Source: as narrated by the priest at Chottainikkara temple, Kochi

Location : Kerala

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Sr. 155/01/2022

Title: Cinderella and the sardine Man

Story collected by: Vidya Kamat

Text source: Folktales from New Goa India, Ed by Sarah Davidson and Elenore ,Phelps 1937, translated by Dr.Pandurang Phaldesai , 2021

Location : Goa

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Sr. No: 154/11/2021

Title: King Bali and Hindu New Year

Story Collected by : Vidya Kamat

Text Source; Ramayana and Baliraja by Pratapsingh Velip Kankar

Location: Goa

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Sr. No: 153/10/2021

Title: Goddess and Buffalo

Story Collected by : Vidya Kamat

Text Source: Tamil Temple Myths by David Dean Shulman

Location: Tamil Nadu

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Sr. No: 152/09/2021

Title: Sita’s Jewels

Story collected by Vidya Kamat

Text source: Bundeli Ramayana by Anandi Lal Kurmi

Location: Bundelkhand Madhya Pradesh

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Sr. No: 151/09/2021

Title: Story of Three friends

Story collected by : Vidya Kamat

Text source:   Tales from Kathasaritsagar, by Arshia Sattar

Location: Pan India

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Sr. No: 150/07/2021

Title: Shoot the Banana tree

Story collected by : Vidya Kamat

Textual source: Folklore of Tribal Communities by Nityanand Patnaik

Location : Odisha

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Sr. No: 149/07/2021

Title: San Juao: Celebration of new life

Story Collected by: Vidya Kamat

Source: Gopinath Vishnu Gavas

Location: Goa

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Sr. No: 148/06/2021

Title: Fifth head of Brahma

Source: Puranic Myth and Culture by S. A. Dange

Location: Pan India

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Sr. No: 147/05/2021

Title: Kashi the city of Gods

Story Collected by : Vidya Kamat

Source: as narrated by Dr. Pranav Gokhale. Textual source: Kashi Khand, and Harivamsa

Location : Kashi, Uttar Pradesh

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Sr. No: 146/05/2021

Title: Male God as Mother

Story Collected by : Vidya Kamat

Source: Tamil Temple Myths by David Shulman

Location: Tamil Nadu

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Sr. No: 145/04/2021

Title: When Ram met Hanuman

Story by : Vidya Kamat

Source: “Mevat jogiyonki Ramkatha- lanka chadai ” by Umar Farooq Mevati and Satyendra Singh

Location: Rajasthan

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Sr. No: 144/04/2021

Tittle: Hair Offering at Tirupati

Story by: Vidya Kamat

Source: as narrated by Pranav Gokhale

Location: Andhra Pradesh

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Sr. No: 143/04/2021

Title: Story of Mumbai

Story By : Vidya Kamat

Source: Mumbadevi Mahatmya by Suraj Pandit

Location: Maharashtra

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Sr. No: 142/03/2021

Title: Making a crocodile and Ramayana

Story by : Durgashree Sardeshpande
Source: As witnessed and heard from locals during the performance of ManageThapane ritual
Location: Goa.

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Sr No: 141/03/2021

Title: When Ms. Cockroach married a rat

tory By : Vidya Kamat

Source: Mrs. Sitabai Panandiker( grandmother) also see Folk tales from New Goa India by Sara Davidson and Eleanor Phelphs. Translated into Konkani by Dr. Pandurang Phaldesai
Location: Goa

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Sr. No: 140/02/2021

Title: Ghughati Festival

Story By Kanika Singh

Source: as heard in the childhood

Location: Uttarakhand

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Sr. No: 139/01/2021

Title: Story with no ending

Source: “Tell it to walls”, A.K. Ramanujan

Location : Pan India

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Sr. No: 138/01/2021

Title: When Shiva swallowed Shukra

Story Collected by: Vidya Kamat

Source: Skanda Purana II.16

Location : Pan India

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Sr. No: 137/12/2020

Title: River is a cow

Story collected by: Vidya Kamat 

Source: Payoshani Mahatmya ; Water and womanhood by Anne Feldhause

Location: Maharashtra

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Sr. No: 136/12/2020

Title: Ravalnath, the Guardian deity

Story by: Vidya Kamat

source: Socio- cultural History of Goa From Bhoj to Vijaynagar by Dr. V. R. Mitragotri; Ravalnath lokdeva ek kshetrapal by Prakash Bhau Narkar, Think Maharashtra

Location Maharashtra, Goa

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Sr. No: 135/12/2020

Title: Seven Sisters and a Brother

Story Collected by : Vidya Kamat

Source: Goa Devmandal: Unnayan ani Sthalanthar by Vinayak Vishnu Khedekar and Bhartiya Sanskritic Viswa ed by Mahadevshatri Joshi

Location: Goa, Pan India

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Sr. No: 134/12/2020

Title How to be a wise man

Story Collected by Vidya Kamat

Source: as told by Kamala Nilakanth

Location: Kerala


Sr. No 133/12/2020

Title: When Earth Fell in Love

Story collected by : Vidya Kamat

Source: Folktales from Central India by Durga Bhagvat

Location : Madhya Pradesh

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Sr. No:132/08/2020

Title: I am Black

Story Collected by : Vidya Kamat

Source: Lore and legends of North Malabar by Vanidas Elayavoor

Location: Kerala

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Sr. No: 131/07/2020

Title: When the snake overcame his anger

Story collected by : Vidya Kamat
Source: The Incredible life of a Himalayan Yogi by Shuddhananda Brahamchari

Location : Pan India

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Sr. No 130/07/2020

Title: Bundeli Ramayana

Story Collected by: Vidya Kamat

Source: Ramkathain Narrative, performance and pictorial traditions By Molly Kaushal, Ashok Bhalla and Ramakar Pant
Bundeli Ramkatha by Anandi Lal Kurmi

Location : Bundelkhand , Madhya Pradesh

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Sr. No: 129/06/2020

Title: Shikhandin’s gender

Story Collected by : Vidya Kamat

Source: Tamil Temple Myths By David Dean Shulman
Location : Tamil Nadu

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Sr. No. 128/06/2020

Title : Son-in law and bowl of payasam

story Collected by : Vidya Kamat

Source: as told by grandmother- Sitabai Panandiker

Location: Goa

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Sr. No 127/05/2020

Title: India’s own Mother’s day

Story Collected by : Vidya Kamat

Source: Adimaya by Ashok Rana

Location: Maharashtra

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Sr. No: 126/05/2020

Title: How Basil turned into  goddess

Story by : Vidya Kamat

Source: Bhartiya Sanskruti kosh Ed By Lakshmanshastri Joshi

Location : Pan India

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Sr. No 125/04/2020

Title: Wrath of Mother Nature

Story Collected by : Vidya Kamat

Source: Shree Padma, Vicissitudes of the Goddess, OUP, New York, 2013
Location : Andhra Pradesh

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