SN 29 connected discourses on nāgas 

nāga samyutta

Saṃyutta Nikāya 29 of 56

Translated by: Bhikkhu Sujato
Read by: Roland Kitchen

Description

The “Linked Discourses on Dragons” is the first of four similar sections dealing with the modes in which various semi-celestial beings may be reborn. The current chapter is on the “dragons” or nāgas, a powerful but morally ambiguous serpentine creature of the waterways.