Surasa

About this text

Wife of Kaśyapa and mother of a thousand sarpas — extraordinarily powerful, many-headed, and able to move through the sky. The Viṣṇu Purāṇa keeps her line separate from Kadrū’s Nāgas, preserving two distinct supernatural serpent populations rather than one.

Pages 1 total

Ch order Newest

Kaśyapa's Thirteen Wives →

All 1 pages shown

Sanskrit sources with transliteration, translation, and verse-level commentary — read in full, free, and permanently linkable.

Sacred texts

Deities

Explore

Knowledge base Study notes Navagraha Puja Full index