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naga, in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, a member of a class of mythical semidivine beings, 50 % human and 50 percent cobra. They may be a robust, handsome species who will think either wholly human or wholly serpentine variety and they are likely perilous but usually helpful to humans.^ Kathiragesu Indrapala writes that "Within the traditions pre