Nagaraja

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.

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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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Hinduism
Shesha
Vasuki
Takshaka
Temples
Buddhism
Virupaksa
Mucalinda
Dhrtarastra
Apalala
Talasikhin
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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.