File:Codice Casanatense Snakes of India.jpg
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English: An anonymous 16th century Portuguese illustration contained within the Códice Casanatense. It depicts a Brahmin on the left, and on the right a Naja snake of India and a mythical two-headed snake. The inscriptions read: Left page - Brahmin. Right page - "These cobras de capelo (Najas) are very venomous and the person whom they bite dies promptly." Below: "Two headed snakes of India are harmless". |
| Date | circa 1540 |
| Source | Album di disegni, illustranti usi e costumi dei popoli d'Asia e d'Africa con brevi dichiarazioni in lingua portoghese, Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome. http://opac.casanatense.it/Record.htm?Record=19921801124917490839 |
| Author | Unknown author |
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