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This festival falls on the fifth days of shrawan bright moon fortnight (AUGUST). On this day people paste the Nags’(serpents’) picture on the door of their houses and worship it by offering cow’s milk; rice’s bread; lava(fried paddy) and some other oblations. Cow’s milk is an indispensable item to worship the Nags. Nags make their houses at some certain places on the earth and if some one spits or urinates on that place; that man immediately gets spiritual sick. Then without offering worship to the Nag; he will not be cured. So people never spit and urinate at those places where the Nags’ sanctum has been made. It’s believed that if Nags are enraged; they can make us lame, blind, and etc defects. That’s why Nags are thought to be very dangerous creatures. So they are worshipped on this day by the people to escape from their fear. It’s believed that; if some worships nicely to the Nags on this day; he will be free from any kind of snake’s bite. So people worship to Nags for this reason as well on this day. Nags are believed to be the sources of water so the scriptures explain that they stay inside the sources of water from where it flows. So people worship to the spouts and springs’ sources in the belief of Nags residence.
People make cottons’ cow dung’s; and rice flour’s serpent’s from and worship it with cow’s milk, lava, barley, sesamum; vermilion, nuts and with some other religious items. Also if we do Nag Puja very nicely every year they provide us good wealth and blessing during our life. If Nag has made us sick no medicine can heal us; so people go to the sorcerer’s house before going to the Doctors. Purans say that this earth has been lifted by Shesh Nag on his head; and; Lord Vishnu is sleeping on its coil in side the water. The Kali Nag; Bashuki Nag; Astha Nag; Padma Nag; and the Karkot Nags are the very powerful Nags. Scripture explains that without Nags’ help there will be on rain. So people worship Nags for the cause of water as well.
Also it’s truly believed that scrpents swallow all of our detrimental items, which are scatterd in the atmosphere; and help us to keep alive. If they wouldn’t have swallowed these harmful items we could live no more. So in this way they are our very intimate friends but in the contrary; if they bite us we may die; so they are like our enemies as well. In one way they are our good friends, and in another way they are our enemy; it provides both the merits and the demrits aspects. These earths are existing on Nag’s head so we are very much indebted to him; and worship them for this cause also. So the “Nag Panchami day” has a very significant value in the Nepalese society. Nags are very invaluable creatures as well; because the invaluable pearl in the world comes only through the Nags; which are called the Nagnamis.
Nag Panchami is the major sacred Indian festivals celebrated all over India by Hindus ..It is just to show respect to the snake mentioned in the ancient sacred Hindu scriptures...During this festivals snakes are bathed with milk, haldi-kumkum is sprinkled on their heads ...Milk and rice is offered as Prasad to the snakes..
It is believed that sacred Nagas brings rain to our country and are worshiped with great enthusiasm through the country.
You can visit place like the "Nag Pokhari" located in the Naxal to see the ongoing pujas taking place there.
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This festival falls on the fifth days of shrawan bright moon fortnight (AUGUST). On this day people paste the Nags’(serpents’) picture on the door of their houses and worship it by offering cow’s milk; rice’s bread; lava(fried paddy) and some other oblations. Cow’s milk is an indispensable item to worship the Nags. Nags make their houses at some certain places on the earth and if some one spits or urinates on that place; that man immediately gets spiritual sick. Then without offering worship to the Nag; he will not be cured. So people never spit and urinate at those places where the Nags’ sanctum has been made. It’s believed that if Nags are enraged; they can make us lame, blind, and etc defects. That’s why Nags are thought to be very dangerous creatures. So they are worshipped on this day by the people to escape from their fear. It’s believed that; if some worships nicely to the Nags on this day; he will be free from any kind of snake’s bite. So people worship to Nags for this reason as well on this day. Nags are believed to be the sources of water so the scriptures explain that they stay inside the sources of water from where it flows. So people worship to the spouts and springs’ sources in the belief of Nags residence.
