Temple priests were generally dismissive of the practices of the jāgar performers, often re-directing my interest in regional narratives of Nagaraja to the Sanskrit-language Bhagavadgita and Bhagavata Purana (the Gita-Bhagavat), which they saw as authoritative and ‘original' sources of oral and vernacular traditions. However, there exist key disjunctures in how Nagaraja is known, experienced and worshiped in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand by jāgar performers-low-caste ritual specialists, storytellers, and musicians-on the one hand, and high-caste temple priests, on the other. In the north Indian state of Uttarakhand, the god Nagaraja, associated with the pan-Indian god Krishna, is an extremely popular deity.
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