Tuxuc : Takshaka, son of Kadru, chief of snakes [s/a Parikshit].
... up a dismal stair seeks ever light, Attained a dais brilliant doubtfully With flaming pediment and round it coiled Page 128 Python and Naga monstrous, Joruthcaru, Tuxuc and Vasuki himself, immense, Magic Carcotaca all flecked with fire... 33 How wanting in the occult atmosphere, though poetically powerful and mythologically significant, is Milton's ...
... and unbounded; moving then like one Who up a dismal stair seeks ever light, Attained a dais brilliant doubtfully With flaming pediment and round it coiled Python and Naga monstrous, Joruthcaru, Tuxuc and Vasuki himself, immense, Magic Carcotaca all flecked with fire; And many other prone destroying shapes Coiled. On the wondrous dais rose a throne, And he its pedestal whose lotus hood With ...
... out of sight. 61 And, then, like other masters of the epic style, Sri Aurobindo too can make marvellous poetry out of mere proper names: Python and Naga monstrous, Joruthcaru, Tuxuc and Vasuki himself, immense, Magic carcotaca all flecked with fire.. . 62 Page 178 but it is no mere catalogue of the names of fabulous pythons and fearsome snakes. Sri Aurobindo ...
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