Nagaraja
Sign in to saveA Nagaraja ( '''', ) 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 (Patala), and can occasionally take human form. Rituals devoted to these supernatural beings have been taking place throughout South Asia for at least two thousand years.
Key facts
- Deity <! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.type
- Hindu
- Deity <! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.image
- File:8th century Nagaraja carving, temple ceiling, Alampur, Telangana.jpg
- Deity <! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.caption
- 8th-century Nagaraja carving, Alampur, Telangana
- Deity <! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.name
- Nagaraja
- Deity <! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.Devanagari
- नागराज
- Deity <! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.Sanskrit_transliteration
- Nāgarāja
- Deity <! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.affiliation
- Nāga
- Deity <! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.abode
- Patala
- Deity <! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.script_name
- Wylie transliteration
- Deity <! Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu mythology >.script
- Klu'i rgyal po
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Article
14 sectionsContents
- Hinduism
- Shesha
- Vasuki
- Takshaka
- Temples
- Buddhism
- Virupaksa
- Mucalinda
- Dhrtarastra
- Apalala
- Talasikhin
- See also
- References
- External links
A Nagaraja ( ', ) 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 (Patala), and can occasionally take human form. Rituals devoted to these supernatural beings have been taking place throughout South Asia for at least two thousand years.
==Hinduism== thumb|A statue of Nagaraja Hindu texts refer to three main beings by this title: Shesha, Takshaka, and Vasuki. All of them are the children of the rishi Kashyapa and Kadru.