Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.2190

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3). Kāśyapa and Takṣaka. The story is told in the 2nd Skandha of Devī Bhāgavata and in the Ādi Parva of Bhārata that Takṣaka set out to bite King Parīkṣit and Kāśyapa to cure him of Takṣaka's poison, but that Takṣaka bribed Kāśyapa off his mission to save the King. But, the story as such is unfounded. It was Kaśyapa and not Kāśyapa whom Brahmā had taught the science of the treatment and cure of poison (see under Kaśyapa) and, therefore, it should be Kaśyapa whom Takṣaka bribed.