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Takshaka

Takshaka, one of the eight great nagas, offspring of Kadru and Kashyapa and a chief of the naga world, bit Parikshit on the seventh day as t…

Kāliya is the venomous serpent who, fleeing Garuḍa, left Ramaṇaka island and settled in a pool of the Yamunā, poisoning its water so that th…

Śeṣa or Ananta is the serpent king of a thousand hoods upon whom Lord Viṣṇu reclines in the ocean of milk, and who bears all the worlds upon…