Nagas

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>From Nagas, by JanJM:

http://skywebsite.com/hollow/cavernworlds/id18.html

 

Similar story is recorded in the Harivansha, which is the addendum to

the

Mahabharata. Yadu, the founder of the Yadava family, went for a trip

to the

sea, where he was carried off by Dhumavarna, king of the serpents, to

the

capital of the serpents. Dhumavarna married his five daughters to

Yadu, and

from them sprang seven distinct families of people.

 

Kumudvati, the Naga princess, married Kusha, the son of Rama, as

described in

the scripture Raghuvansha.

 

The following account touches upon the issue of underground hominoid-

sauroid

conflicts.

 

The Vishnu Purana speaks about the Gandharvas, descendants of sage

Kashyapa

and his wife Muni. Therefore they are also called Mauneyas.

(According to

Hindu Dictionary by Manurishi Foundation, the Mauneyas are a class of

Gandharvas, who dwell beneath the earth, and are sixty millions in

number.)

They were fighting with the Nagas in the subterranean regions, whose

dominions

they seized and whose treasures they plundered. The Naga chiefs

appealed to

Vishnu for relief, and He promised to appear in the person of

Purukutsa, son

of King Mandhata, to help them. Thereupon the Nagas sent their sister

Narmada

to this Purukutsa, and she conducted him to the regions below, where

he

destroyed the Gandharvas. (According to the Ramayana similar

Gandharvas were

defeated by Bharata, the brother of Rama, and Hanuman.) The ninth

khanda of

the Bhagavata Purana also briefly mentions this story.

 

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