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Question

The Prajnaparamita sutras were guarded by one of these creatures until a philosopher likely named for them retrieved them for humanity. For 10 points each:

[10e] What creatures, whose rajas in Hindu tradition include Takshaka, Vasuki, and Shesha, may manifest in a half-serpent form?

ANSWER: nagas [or nagarajas; or nagadevas; or nagi; or nagini; accept Nagarjuna; prompt on snakes; prompt on serpents] (The first sentence refers to Nagarjuna.)

[10m] All three Trimurti astras are wielded by this character, whose Nagapasha is a weapon consisting of a million snakes. In the Buddhist Ramakien, Hanuman catches this warrior's head so that it won't start a world-destroying fire after Shesha, in the form of Lakshmana, beheads this son of Ravana.

ANSWER: Indrajit [or Meghanada; or Shakrajita; or Varidanada; or Ghananada; or Vasavajita; prompt on Ravani]

[10h] This princess uses the Nagamani to revive Arjuna when her stepson Babruvahana shoots him. Iravan is the son of Arjuna and this daughter of the nagaraja Kauravya.

ANSWER: Ulupi [or Uluchi; or Ulupika]

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2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	6	13.33	83%	33%	17%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%

Data


BHSU Rebirth	BHSU ReFantazio	10	10	10	30
Clown Squad	Notre Dame	10	10	0	20
Music to Help You Stop Smoking	The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	10	0	0	10
That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days	Northeast by Northwestern	10	0	0	10
Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	WashU	0	0	0	0
hawk two of	Clown Senpais	10	0	0	10
"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro	Banned from ARGOS	10	0	0	10
Import Pandas	Hu up Jinning they Tao	10	0	0	10
Pahkin' the Ahgo	\|madam\|	10	0	0	10
Cambridge	Cien Años de Quizboledad	10	10	0	20
Simple Vibes	Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	10	10	0	20
Defying Suavity	Limp Francekit	10	0	0	10
just one more half-dot bro	12 Litres of Green Tea	10	0	0	10
Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	10	0	0	10
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	0	0	0	0
as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	10	0	0	10
Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers	She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere	10	0	0	10
You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	10	0	0	10
Berkeley	A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	10	0	0	10
Cry of the Common Loon	Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	10	10	0	20
Stanford+	number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	10	0	0	10
Walston et. al.	NJ TRANSit (and anwen	10	10	0	20
jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	Cope is the thing with feathers	10	0	0	10
throw away your cards, rally in the streets	Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms	10	0	0	10
CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!	I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire	10	10	10	30
Thompson et al.	UBC	10	0	0	10