There is a puranic fanciful legend caught wind of Nagaraja Taxaka and Dhanavantari in this piece of Malwa area in Madhya Pradesh. Sovereign Janamejaya climbed to the seat of Hastinapura upon the passing of his dad Parikshit. 
As per legend, Parikshit, the solitary relative of the House of Pandu, had passed on of snakebite. He had been reviled by a sage to pass on along these lines, the revile having been fulfilled by the snake clan leader Takshak. 
Janamejaya stored up resentment toward the snakes for this demonstration, and along these lines chose to clear them out through and through. He endeavored this by playing out an extraordinary Sarpa Satra - a penance at Nagda that would crush every single living snake.
 All the nagas had been annihilated in this nagayagya aside from Taxaka, who is accepted to have gotten aid from Lord Vishnu. The nearby convention goes that Taxaka dwells here in this spot. 

Then again Dhanavantari alongside his devotees and prescriptions planned to spare Parikshit. The Taxaka naga with the assistance of illusive forces appeared as wood-stick of the Chandan tree. When Dhanavantari took this wood-stick on his shoulder, the Taxaka chomp him on back and Dhanvantari passed on. 
The nearby individuals accept that Dhanvantari remains here since that time as a divine force of spices and prescriptions. The nearby vaidyas first love Dhanavantari here and afterward gather restorative spices for treatment.