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The cosmic snake Shesha, the nagarajas (naga kings) Vasuki, Takshaka, Airavata and Karkotaka, and the princess Ulupi, are all depicted in the Mahabharata. The Brahma Purana describes the reign of Adishesha as the king of the serpents in Patala: [22] During the night the light of the moon is not utilised for its coolness but only for illumination.
'The snake Shesha') and Adishesha (Sanskrit: आदिशेष, romanized: Ādiśeṣa, lit. 'First Shesha'), is a serpentine demigod ( naga ) and king of the serpents ( Nagaraja ), as well as a primordial being of creation in Hinduism .
Below is a list of Nāgas, a group of serpentine and draconic deities in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.They are often guardians of hidden treasure and many are upholders of Dharma.
Nagalakshmi (Sanskrit: नागलक्ष्मी, romanized: nāgalakṣmī) is a serpent goddess and the consort of Shesha, a nagaraja (king of the serpents) and one of the two mounts of Vishnu featured in Hindu mythology. She is considered to be the personification of the divine ocean called the Kshira Sagara. [2]
Astika is half Brahmin and half naga, son of Manasa. Kaliya, a snake conquered by Krishna. Karkotaka controls weather; Manasā, also Mansa Devi, is a Hindu folk goddess of snakes, sister of Vasuki and wife of sage Jagatkāru (Jaratkāru). Paravataksha, his sword causes earthquakes and his roar caused thunder.
A Nagaraja (Sanskrit: नागराज nāgarāja, lit. ' king of the nagas ') is a king of the various races of the nāga, the divine or semi-divine, half-human, half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld (), and can occasionally take human form. [1]
Manasa (Sanskrit: मनसा, romanized: Manasā) is a Hindu goddess of snakes. [1] She is worshipped mainly in Bihar, Odisha, Bengal, Jharkhand, South Assam and other parts of northeastern India and in Uttarakhand, chiefly for the prevention and cure of snakebite, and also for fertility and prosperity.
Mucalinda, Muchalinda, or Mucilinda is a nāga, a snake-like being, who protected the Gautama Buddha from the elements after his enlightenment. [ 2 ] It is said that six weeks after Gautama Buddha began meditating under the Bodhi Tree , the heavens darkened for seven days, and a prodigious rain descended.