A winged snake who was protected by his friend Indra from the conflagration of the Khandava forest and who later, by the curse of Sringi, was fated to kill Maharaja Parikshit. Kashyapa Muni tried to stop Takshaka from approaching Parikshit, but Takshaka managed to carry out his mission by bribing the sage.

Takshaka was one of the Nagas mentioned in the epic Mahabharata. He lived in a city named Takshasila, which was the new territory of Takshaka after his race was banished by Pandavas headed by Arjuna from the Khandava Forest and Kurukshetra, where they built their new kingdom.

A name of Viswa-karma

The carpenter , as known in the Vedic times.