Editing Mucilinda (section)

==Development==
Mucalinda first appears in the ''Mucalinda Sutta'', where it is described that the naga king protected Buddha from the elements by encircling Buddha's body seven times with his coils and standing with his hood spread over. Generally we find statues and carvings of Muchalinda with seven heads, as discovered at the Ta Prohm-temple in Cambodia, in September 2024.<ref>https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article292815444.html</ref> After Buddha finished meditating and the sky cleared, Mucalinda adopted the form of a youth and bowed before him.<ref name=JoRa>Jason Johns, Jyotsna Rani Nag, ''Muchalinda Buddha:- An Interdisciplinary approach to Reinterpret the Depiction of the Buddha with Muchalinda Naga'', Journal of Archaeological Studies in India, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2021, pp. 140-157</ref>

The first existent artwork depicting Mucalinda comes from a 2nd-century BC [[stupa]] in [[Pauni]], [[Maharashtra]], where the naga is portrayed as having five heads and guarding Buddha's empty seat. Contemporaneous artwork from [[Sanchi]] has him portrayed in zoo-anthropomorphic form and attended by a retinue of nagini.<ref name=JoRa/>