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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
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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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