The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c10.127

v1.c10.127

**Worship of Nagas :** 'Some of the hermits in the Sāñci bas-reliefs are engaged in worshipping the five-headed Nāga; but as the Hindu recognised in it an emblem of the sempiternal divinity Ananta, and the Buddhist, a race of superhuman beings, worthy of adoration, devotion to it would not be by any means unbecoming a hermit, who is required to observe all the necessary regular and periodical rites and ceremonies.