Descent of the Ganges

Go to wikipedia and then 'Descent of the Ganges (Mahabalipuram)' and 'Bhagiratha'.  You will see lots of photos of a huge relief-sculpture with a Nagaraja in the cleft.  To me, the Nagaraja is the center of interest.  Almost all the 140ish figures face this cleft, from either side, and the Nagaraja is at the center of the cleft.  But he doesn't figure at all in the mythology of the descent of the Ganges, at least in that presented here.  So what-- he's still central.  And the only other photos I've been able to find of this sculpture-wall feature
the Nagaraja and his vicinity.  I xeroxed these photos from the public library art-books and have taped most of them around the walls of my inner sanctum.  I even made a necklace with the plaque a sort of icon featuring this figure (slightly altered) in a vague grotto, that shows him greenish, with the cobra-cowl, and a numinous green-gold aura of eastern onion-dome shape.  Awesome.  I'm wearing it now.  People must think I'm some sort of weirdo Hindu cultist.  I'm also working on another in which the figure is a closer fit to the frame, so it can be made-out better.  The head is not like in the original sculpture-- it is roundish, and like a smiling snake, with no ears or hair or headdress-- simple but ambiguous-numinous (beautiful but a bit scary).  Sorry I can't present a photo-- but it's better, I think, to make your own mind-picture from a description-- idols are too definite, and that robs them of their glamour, just like movies do to novels.  Anyway, I still thought you might get a buzz from seeing this famous, World Heritage Site figure, which to me is central-- pretty much the Drygand..