Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.4021.4

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(xii) Vāsuki is one of the seven nāgas which hold up the earth. (M.B. Anuśāsana Parva, Chapter 150, Stanza 41). (xiii) When Balabhadrarāma went to Pātāla after his death, Vāsuki had gone there to receive him. (M.B. Mausala Parva, Chapter 4, Stanza 15). (xiv) Once Vāsuki and Vāyu tried to find out who was the more powerful of the two, in consequence of which contest Mount Trikūṭa was broken from the vicinity of Mahāmeru and was thrown into the southern Sea. (See under Trikūṭa). (xv) Words such as Nāgarāṭ, Nāgarāja, Nāgendra, Paṇṇaga, Paṇṇagarāṭ, Sarparāja, and so on are used as synonyms of Vāsuki in Mahābhārata.