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  Kaliya

 

India

A colourful bas-relief of the Hindu god Krishna subduing Kaliya, the naga serpent king with multiple heads, that lived in a whirlpool of the river Yamuna (fig.) where it polluted the environment with its poison, until it was removed by Krishna.

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