In
Bengal you would find the ancient serpent goddess Manasha, who was
supposed to be a Kobra or a Nagin!Manasha was there even before the
Vedic people came to India.Would The following picture where Vedic
Godking Krshna dancing on the snake Kalya's head mean the subjuagation
of pre-vedic deities!
Nāga
(Sanskrit: नाग, IAST: nāgá, Burmese: နဂါး, ngar, Indonesian: naga,
Javanese: någå, Khmer: នាគ neak, Chinese: 那伽) is the Sanskrit and Pāli
word for a deity or class of entity or being, taking the form of a very
great snake—specifically the King Cobra, found in Hinduism and Buddhism.
