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Folk Lore Notes. Vol. I—Gujarat

Note 54 — Chapter VII · TREE AND SERPENT WORSHIP.

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A tradition is current that god Vishnu sleeps on the Shesha Nāg in the Milky Ocean. This snake is believed to have a thousand mouths and to support the earth on its hood.54

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