This is the terrifying moment a man sleeping at a temple in northwestern India awoke to find a deadly cobra in his bed.

CCTV footage captured on September 5 at Mandareshwar Temple in Banswara in the state of Rajasthan shows the Indian spectacled cobra slithering towards the man and then crawling onto the mattress on which he is soundly sleeping.

Unaware of the reptile, the man continues to sleep for a few moments but then he rolls over and feels the cobra wrapped around his leg. In a panic, he leaps to his feet, whips off his blankets and reveals the deadly intruder.

The snake snaps at him once before crawling away into the temple grounds.

The man, who had been sleeping at the temple for the last 44 days as part of his religious practice, was unharmed in the incident.

A temple official said wild animals were seen often at the temple which is situated on the Aravalli mountain range.

An Indian spectacled cobra crept under a man who was sleeping at temple premises. A CCTV camera at Mandareshwar Temple in Banswara in the state of Rajasthan filmed the terrifying development. Luckily the young man survived. Jai Upadhyay, a resident of Banswara, has deep faith Lord Shiva who is worshipped in the temple. He has been sleeping in the temple premises for last 44 days as part of his faith. On September 5, when he was sleeping at midnight a fully grown adult cobra was filmed creeping under his mattress. Unaware of the snake, Jai continued to sleep for a few minutes. He only felt it when the snake wrapped itself around his leg and moved when he turned. He thought  a frog had entered his mattress and stood up quickly. Instead a cobra crept out of his bed. Jai fled in panic and the cobra also escaped. 
A temple official said Jai wild animals were frequently seen in the temple which was situated on the Aravalli mountain range.