Nagaraja

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Nagaraja
8th-century Nagaraja carving, Alampur, Telangana
Devanagari	नागराज
Sanskrit transliteration	Nāgarāja
Wylie transliteration	Klu'i rgyal po
Affiliation	Nāga
Abode	Patala

A Nagaraja (Sanskrit: नागराज nāgarāja, lit. 'king of the nagas') 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.^[1] Rituals devoted to these supernatural beings have been taking place throughout South Asia for at least two thousand years.^[2]