Nagara Panchami Celebrated with Devotion

Nagar Panchami is a festival that falls in the month of Shravan after Ashad. There are many stories woven around Nagaradhahana. It was customary to use Nagara to determine auspicious and inauspicious events. Many people believe that children are obtained by the grace of Nagara.

A part of the nature of Nagaradhahana. Those who have been worshipping Nagara since time immemorial are said to be one of the important deities of the Rigveda. Nagara stones are often planted under the Ashwattha tree. It is a mythological belief that the earth stands on the feet of Adisesha, the king of snakes. The serpent is the ornament of Shiva's neck. Ganesha's belly bandha, the form of Subrahmanya, the Kundalini Shakti in yoga practice, Subrahmanya, the god worshipped by snakes, Lakshmana, Balarama, and Adisesha are said to be incarnations.

The sixth day of Naga worship is Nagara Panchami. This is celebrated on Panchami. On the sixth day, people also take a bath, worship a stone Naga or a Naga made of clay, and offer milk to the body. They offer offerings of milk to the body and everyone drinks milk and beg for it.

There are many folk tales about Nagara Panchami, such as removing the Naga from the Rangoli, mixing the clay with wheat flour, making it look like a snake, placing it on the Nagara Panchami and offering milk and ghee to the Nagara Panchami. The significance of the Nagara Panchami festival lies in those tales. For this festival, girls and boys come to their hometowns, enjoy the festival food together, swing in the mango grove and enjoy themselves. They sing folk songs to lighten their minds.

There is a folk tale about Nagara. The elder brother comes to bring his sister from her home for the Nagara Panchami festival. The younger brother is a rich daughter-in-law of the sister's husband. When the elder brother is taking his sister away, he sees the jewelry that the younger brother is wearing and becomes greedy. He angrily tells the younger brother to take it off. She refuses to give it to him. Then he thinks that he will kill her and get the jewelry. He picks up a big stone that is there and starts hitting her on the head. Then the snake under the stone gets angry and bites him and kills him. Then the younger sister prays to Nagadev with devotion and brings her brother back to life. She apologizes to the elder brother for her mistake. It is customary for the daughters of that time to come to their homes for the Nagara Panchami festival. This story was told in the form of a folk song in the past. Dasaiah used to go from house to house and sing and beg. Similarly, in another story, while a farmer was plowing his field, a baby snake got caught in his plow and died. Its mother wanted revenge. She killed the farmer and his family right away. The farmer's daughter had married in another town. The snake set out to kill her.

At that time, the farmer's daughter made a statue of a snake in the mud and worshipped it. Seeing it, the snake got angry and came to kill you. But, seeing that you worshipped it, my anger melted. It said, "What do you want as a boon?" Then she said, "Let my family members whom you have killed live." That cured the poison. That day was the pure Shravan Panchami. This story is said to be the origin of the girls going to their hometowns in Shravan and worshipping the snake and having a festival. This is a symbol of a festival that embodies good culture.

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