Naga Chavathi celebrated with devotion

A large number of devotees visited the Naga Devatha Temple at Trimulgherry in Secunderabad in view of the Nagula Chavithi festival, offered prayers and sought blessings of Naga Devatha on Sunday. As part of the celebration devotees performed poojas to seek relief from Naga Dosha, fulfill their wishes for wellbeing and seek blessing for children by the childless couples. The temple authorities made elaborate arrangements to ensure peaceful darshan and distributed prasadam to all the devotees.

The festival is a traditional worship of snakes or serpents observed by Hindus throughout India and Nepal. The abode of snakes is believed to be Patal Lok (the seven realms of the universe located below the earth) and lowest of them is also called Naga loka, the region of the Nagas, as part of the creation force. A serpent deity made of silver, stone or wood or the painting of snakes on the wall are given a bath with milk and then revered.