Nagas, demi-gods, concerned in the production of rain, i. 294
—— of Assam, their burial custom, viii. 100;
believe that the dead are reborn as butterflies or flies, viii. 290 sq.;
the tug-of-war among the, ix. 177;
their ceremony of the new fire, x. 136
—— of the Mahabharata, i. 383 n. 4
Nagin, “wives of the snake,” in Behar, ii. 149
Nagir, island of Torres Straits, mode of imparting courage in, viii. 153
Nagpur, the cobra the crest of the Maharajah of, iv. 132 sq.;
story of the type of Beauty and the Beast told in, iv. 132 sq.