NAGASIVA
ORIGINS/MEANING:
'Siva of the Nagas', provided this name by Kali, Queen of Demons
named after Nagarjuna, 'Arjuna of the Nagas', one of the founders of the Middle Way School (Madhyamika) of Great Vehicle (Mahayana) Buddhism.
denoted as the devotee of a deity whose consort is the yogic god, Siva or Shiva; the preliminary term 'naga' refers to water dragons from whom the reincarnation of the Buddha's first student, Ananda, retrieved the advanced teachings of the august sage; the nagas are said to be half-human and half-serpent, and the same term is also used to refer to snakes.