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The names of the first couple vary from village to village. This version comes from Bandagaon, Koraput District.

A brother and sister, Dakpaska and Dakadidi, floated in a hollow cotton-tree when the world sank below the water. The tree at last came to rest upon a hill. The brother and sister married, and they bore Gogerenga and Jagarenga. They lamented, "How can we live with no land to cultivate?" Mother Earth told them to sacrifice a maiden to her. They sacrificed their granddaughter, and the water dried up. The earth was still unstable, so they steadied it by driving nails of thorn-brush into the ground.

Verrier Elwin, Myths of Middle India (London: Oxford University Press, 1949), 41-42.