LINK NAGA26 - AN OVERVIEW

Historic Sanskrit texts such as the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and also the Puranas describe the nagas as a powerful, splendid and happy semi-divine species which can presume their Bodily kind either as human (often with a halo of cobra hoods driving their head), as a partially human serpent, or in general serpent. Their domain is in the enchanted