THE LIVING ARCHIVE
About Nagapasha
The binding should be distinguished from every arrow compared with a snake. In this episode the arrows are revealed as serpents, and their withdrawal follows Garuda’s appearance. The account therefore provides a concrete serpent-related action beyond an ordinary poetic comparison of speed or poison.
The familiar name emphasizes capture, but the brothers are also wounded and bleeding. Restraint and injury coexist in the scene. Describing the Pasha merely as a harmless rope would miss the severity of the ordeal and the distress seen by their companions.
AT A GLANCE
Identity & Context
- Identity
- Astra
- Form
- Invoked divine weapon
- Tradition
- Epic / Puranic traditions
THE STORY
Origins & Stories
ROLE & ESSENCE
Attributes & Significance
The episode combines physical injury with the fear produced by the leaders’ apparent fall. Sugriva and the Vanara chiefs have to respond while the brothers cannot act. Vibhishana urges them to maintain hope and attend to the army, so the scene also concerns leadership during a crisis.
Astra Class
Invoked celestial weapon
Known Wielders
Invocation & Withdrawal
Epic accounts describe instruction, invocation and withdrawal. This entry does not supply a reconstructed mantra.
Effects & Destructive Capability
The serpent binding weapon restrains Rama and Lakshmana in the Lanka war narrative.
Recorded Uses & Battles
Tradition Notes
Names and accounts can vary by recension, region and commentary. This entry distinguishes attested details from identifications still requiring a passage-level source.
Archive Classification Notes
Original archive annotations are retained here. The current playable classification is shown in the side panel.
- Tradition Dependence
- High; distinguish individual epic accounts.
- Associated Deity
- Not established in the passage; no additional claim is made here.
- Origin & Transmission
- Not established in the passage; no additional claim is made here.
- Special Properties
- Not established in the passage; no additional claim is made here.
- Restrictions
- Not established in the passage; no additional claim is made here.
- Editorial Power Tier
- Unassigned — no verified comparative scale
- Editorial Rarity
- Archive classification
TRADITION & MEANING
Traditions & Interpretations
Serpent missiles, binding nooses and ordinary snake similes are not automatically one weapon. The release by Garuda belongs to this specific episode and should be distinguished from Rama’s later use of a Garuda-associated Astra in another duel.
Garuda’s rescue changes the meaning of what the army has seen. The motionless brothers were not beyond recovery, despite Indrajit’s confidence in victory. Once the serpents flee and the wounds heal, Rama and Lakshmana can rise and continue the campaign.
Names and accounts can vary by recension, region and commentary. This entry distinguishes attested details from identifications still requiring a passage-level source.
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Rama is held and later released.
Lakshmana shares the ordeal.
Garuda drives away the serpents and heals the brothers.