Nāga (Nag/Nagini)

According to the source summary, nāgas are mythologically situated as the children of the sage Kashyapa and Kadru, placing them within classical South Asian genealogical frameworks and linking them to other beings in that cosmology.

The source lists three principal iconographic types: entirely human figures with snakes on the heads and necks; common serpents (ordinary snake form); and half-human, half-snake beings. The tradition allows fluidity of form, noting that nāgas can occasionally take human or part-human shape or are so depicted in art. The female form is called a Nagini.

The provided source describes nāgas as a 'divine, or semi-divine, race' and associates them with water, equating them broadly with dragons and water spirits. Beyond this, the source does not enumerate specific supernatural powers or behaviors; it indicates their ritual significance and placement in the netherworld (Patala) and notes their mythic genealogy, but gives no detailed lists of magical abilities in the summarized material.