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Entry वासुकि

वासुकिvāsukiवासुकेयः [vāsukēyḥ], वासुकेयः N. of a celebrated serpent, king of snakes (said to be a son of Kaśyapa)…
वासुकेयः vāsukēyḥ, वासुकेयः Name of a celebrated serpent, king of snakes (said to be a son of Kaśyapa); सर्पाणामस्मि वासुकिः Bg.1.28; Ku.2.38; (hence वासुकेयस्वसा means 'the sister of the snake-god', an epithet of the deity Manasā; Latin D. B.).
In the Gita10·28

प्रजनश्चास्मि कन्दर्पः सर्पाणामस्मि वासुकिः ॥

prajanaścāsmi kandarpaḥ sarpāṇāmasmi vāsukiḥ. — Among weapons I am the divine thunderbolt; I am Kamadhuk the cow of plenty among cattle, I am Kandarpa the love-god among the progenitors; among the… 10·28
- वासुकिःvāsukiḥnominative singular of the masculine noun vāsuki (name of a serpent-king, the gods and demons used the serpent Vasuki as a rope for twisting round the mountain Mandara when they churned the ocean with it).
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