Naga cult and wooden art in India

Naga cult had been a world widephenomenon bout its predominance in india, had been an interestingand curious subject of study the strange shape, curious behaviour,multiple of superstitions an beliefs associated with this mostdreaded animal of hot country like india, its dreaded poisonouscharacter, and yet its so an honourable and respectful status inthe socio-culture and religious life and tradition of indian folk,makes the snakelore or naga cult, all the more interesting, thedual nature of nagas both as humans and serpents (animals), or asan ethnic race or as a totem, has made the study of nagalore, acovered subject of study for both indian or non-indian scholars,over the last one and a half century the study of serpentlore or naga cult, though a widersubject of study in the context of its being a world widephenomenon and its wide spread prevalence in the whole of india,has a specific importance for the jammu region while the nagaworship and naga traditions in kashmir, india and erstwhile greaterindia, has now become extinct, or reduced to a negligible size, intheir present day prevalent cultural traditions or culturalheritage of the people of those regions, its existence in jammuhill region is greatly fell even today in the existence of scoresof revered naga shrines and other socio-religious traditionsassociated with nagas of the region, as in the case of karla nag,patnitop, bhed nag, nagrota or vaisiki nag, bhadarwah some ofthese shrines of nagas of the region have a great historicalcultural antiquarian and monumental value, and some others are onthe way o develop as important centers of religions or culturaltourism in the region about the author dr pk kaul from bhaderwah (j&k) is a writer and aresearch scholar of repute, having to his credit some 40(forty)years of field work and regional research in diverse fields ofsocial sciences, namely linguistics, folk lore antiquity,paleography, history and culture etc basically a science graduate,most of this re