"KADRU - THE SNAKE GODDESS"

This is a new favourite illustration of mine. This is a fusion of my character concept and background concept. Really enjoyed and satisfied with this.

THE STORY OF "KADRU - THE SNAKE GODDESS"

Acording to brahma puran, In ancient history of india there was a king named Kashyapa. Who had two wives - Kadru and Vinata.Generally, Kadru is described as the daughter of Daksha Prajapati and the wife of the sage Maharishi Kashyapa.
The Hindu epic Mahabharata, which gives a detailed tale about her, recognizes her as one of Kashyapa's many wives. There is also a view that she was the daughter of Daksha, but it has not been established from Puranic literature. In the Aranyakanda of the Valmiki Ramayana it is mentioned that Daksaprajapati had sixty daughters of whom he married off Aditi, Diti, Danu, Tamra, Krodhavasa, Muni and Surasa to Kashyapa. Krodhavasa had eight daughters of whom Kadru was one. Thus, Kadru may alternatively be considered the granddaughter of Daksha. Vinata, Kadru's sister, is another wife of Kashyapa. Though both were sisters, they were jealous of each other.
Kashyap offered both of them a boon. She Kadru said, "Let thousand brave and radiant sons be born to me." Kashyap granted her the boon. Then Vinata became jealous on kadru and said, "Let such sons be born to me, who are braver and brighter than even my sister's sons." Kashyap granted the boon her too.
After a long time Kadru gave thousand eggs and Vinata gave two eggs. The eggs were carefully incubated in containers with hot water or in jars which were kept warm. After a lapse of five hundred years, the eggs laid by Kadru hatched and her sons came to life. Of these thousand naga sons, the most prominent ones were Shesha, Vasuki and Takshaka. All the serpents born in this world are the descendants of these thousand sons. Then she became snake goddess.