The Sanskrit feminine noun kuṇḍalī means "ring, bracelet, coil (of a rope)", and is the name of a "serpent-like" Shakti in Tantrism as early as the 11th century, in the Śaradatilaka. Kuṇḍa, a noun which means "bowl, water-pot", is found as the name of a Naga in Mahabharata 1.4828. It occurs as a noun for "a snake" (in the sense "coiled", as in "forming ringlets") in the 12th-century Rajatarangini chronicle (I.2). The Sanskrit adjective kuṇḍala means "circular, annular".
The serpent is shown again on the left of the drawing. Drawing of the subtle body in an Indic manuscript showing the energy centres ( chakras), the main subtle channels ( nadis), and the coiled serpent energy at the base of the spine ( kundalini).
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