Nagamma (other)
Nagamma is an Indian name based on Serpent goddess Nāga. * Bala Nagamma (other), the name of multiple films * Nayakuralu Nagamma, statesperson and minister to King Nalagama, the ruler of Palanadu in Guntur district See also * Naga (other) Naga or NAGA may refer to: Mythology * Nāga, a serpentine deity or race in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditions * Naga Kingdom, in the epic ''Mahabharata'' * Phaya Naga, mythical creatures believed to live in the Laotian stretch of the Mekong Ri ...

Nāga
The Nagas (IAST: ''nāga''; Devanāgarī: नाग) are a divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld (Patala), and can occasionally take human or part-human form, or are so depicted in art. A female naga is called a Nagi, or a Nagini. According to legend, they are the children of the sage Kashyapa and Kadru. Rituals devoted to these supernatural beings have been taking place throughout South Asia for at least 2,000 years. They are principally depicted in three forms: as entirely human with snakes on the heads and necks, as common serpents, or as half-human, half-snake beings in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. ''Nagaraja'' is the title given to the king of the nagas. Narratives of these beings hold cultural significance in the mythological traditions of many South Asian and Southeast Asian cultures, and within Hinduism and Buddhism, they are the ancestral origins of the Nagavanshi Kshatriyas. Etymology In Sanskrit, a () ...
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Bala Nagamma (other)
''Bala Nagamma'' may refer to: * ''Bala Nagamma'' (1942 film), a Telugu-language film directed by Chittajallu Pullayya * ''Bala Nagamma'' (1959 film), a Telugu-language film directed by Vedantam Raghavaiah * ''Bala Nagamma'' (1966 film), a Kannada-language film directed by P. R. Kaundinya * ''Bala Nagamma'' (1981 film), a Tamil-language film directed by K. Shankar {{disambiguation ...
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Nayakuralu Nagamma
Nayakuralu Nagamma was a 12th-century renowned statesperson and minister to King Nalagama, the ruler of Palanadu in Guntur District. She is one of the key characters, along with Bramha Naidu, in the epic war - Palnati Yudham (War of Palnad) set in the medieval Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to t ..., a southern state of India. References * B S L Hanumantha Rao, ''Social Mobility in Medieval Andhra'', Telugu Academy Press * Palanati Vira charitra, Oral Epic * http://www.andhrabulletin.in/AB_Maguva/maguva_veeravanitha_nagamma.php {{Authority control History of Andhra Pradesh 14th-century Indian women 14th-century Indian people Date of birth unknown Date of death missing ...
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