Nāga
Nāga
Nāga is a name used for more than one being and place in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.
People
- Nāgas: the great serpent beings born to Kadrū and Kaśyapa Prajāpati, who live in Pātāla under the rules Brahmā gave them. What single Purāṇas tell of them is on Nāgas in the Agni Purāṇa, Nāgas in the Bhavishya Purāṇa, Nāgas in the Vāmana Purāṇa and Nāgas in the Varāha Purāṇa. Agni Purāṇa; Bhavishya Purāṇa; Vāmana Purāṇa; Varāha Purāṇa
- Nāga (son of Śūrasena): the son of King Śūrasena of Pratishṭhāna, born in the form of a serpent, freed from Bhagavān Śiva‘s śāpa at the Gautamī by the devotion of his wife Bhogavatī. Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 41
Places
- Nāga (mountain): one of the kesara mountains on the northern side of Meru, which stand round it like the filaments round the heart of a lotus. Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 18
- Nāga Tīrtha (Bhogavatī): the tīrtha on the Gautamī where Bhogavatī and her serpent husband worshipped Bhagavān Śiva, installed Nāgeśvara and were freed from a śāpa. Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 41
- Nāga Tīrtha (Tīrtha List): a tīrtha named in the Brahma Purāṇa’s list of the holy tīrthas and kshetras of the earth. Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 25