Editing Shesha (section)

==Literature==
The [[Brahma Purana]] describes the attributes of Ananta:<ref>{{Cite web |last=www.wisdomlib.org |date=2018-03-17 |title=The Magnitude of Netherworlds [Chapter 19] |url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/brahma-purana-english/d/doc216089.html |access-date=2022-08-13 |website=www.wisdomlib.org |language=en |archive-date=5 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805155846/https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/brahma-purana-english/d/doc216089.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{Blockquote|text=Daityas and Dānavas are not capable of recounting his good qualities. He is honoured by Devas and celestial sages. He is spoken of as Ananta. He has a thousand hoods, and he is clearly bedecked in Svastika ornaments devoid of impurities. He illuminates all quarters by thousand jewels on his hoods.

For the welfare of the universe, he deprives the Asuras of their prowess. His eyes whirl and rove due to intoxication. He has only one earring at all times.

Wearing a crown and garlands he shines like a white mountain aflame with fire.

He is clad in blue garments. He is intoxicated with pride. He is resplendent with white garlands. He is lofty like the mountain of Kailāsa where the celestial Gaṅgā falls. He has placed his hand on the plough-share; he holds an excellent iron club. He is attended upon by the embodied splendour of Varuṇa.

At the end of the Kalpa, Rudra in the form of Saṅkarṣaṇa comes out of his mouth, blazing like the flame of poisonous fire and devours the three worlds.

He holds the entire sphere of the world rising above like a peak.|title=[[Brahma Purana]]|source=Chapter 19}}
The Brahmanda Purana also described Shesha in Patala:
{{Blockquote|text=With his two thousand eyes that have the reddish splendour of the rising sun and with his body that is white and glossy, he appears like the mountain. Kailāsa surrounded by clusters of flames. He has the white complexion like the Moon as well as the Kunda flowers. Hence the cluster of his eyes shines like the cluster of midday suns on the peak of the white Mountain (Śveta Parvata).

He has a huge terrible body. With it (resting) in his reclining pose on his couch, he appears like a thousand-peaked mountain of vast dimensions (resting) over the earth.

This (enormously) huge lord of serpents, himself of great splendour, is being attended upon by extremely wise and noble-souled great serpents of huge physique. He is the king of all serpents. He is Ananta, Śeṣa, of excessive brilliance.|title=[[Brahmanda Purana]]|source=Chapter 20}}[[File:Vishnu with Shesha Naga - Bronze - Showcase 11-1 - Bronze Gallery - Government Museum - Mathura 2013-02-24 6635.JPG|thumb|Vishnu with Shesha Naga-ancient Bronze artefact in Government Museum Mathura]]The [[Bhagavata Purana]] equates Shesha and Balarama:
{{Blockquote|text=The foremost manifestation of Lord Vishnu is Sankarṣana, who is known as Ananta. He is the origin of all incarnations within this material world. Previous to the appearance of Lord Shri Krishna, this original Sankarsana will appear as Baladeva, just to please the Supreme Lord Shri Krishna in His transcendental pastimes."|title=[[Bhagavata Purana]]|source=10.1.24}}
In the [[Bhagavadgita|Bhagavad Gita]] chapter 10, verse 29, [[Krishna]] describes 75 of his common manifestations, and declares, {{IAST|"anantaś ca asmi nāgānāṁ"}}: ''Among Nāgas (a special class of serpents), I am the serpent-god Ananta''.

Anantashesha appears in [[SCP Foundation]] as SCP-3000.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SCP-3000 - SCP Foundation |url=https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3000 |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=The SCP Foundation |language=en}}</ref>[[File:Kerala Folklore Museum 2018-04-02l.jpg|thumb|250x250px|Heads of Shesha at the Kerala Folklore Museum]]
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File:Hampi3.JPG|[[Narasimha]], the man-lion incarnation of Vishnu seated on the coils of Shesha, with seven heads of Shesha forming a canopy. Statue at [[Vijayanagara]].
File:Bishnu.jpg|[[Mahavishnu|Maha Vishnu]] sheltered by the five-headed Shesha, [[Parsurameswar Temple]], [[Bhubaneswar]]
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