Nagarpanchami falls on the 5th day of the bright half of the lunar month
of Shravana. On this day, newly married girls visit their parents. Swings
are put up in the village on which both adults and children indulge themselves
without any inhabitation, irrespective of caste, creed or sex. The religious
part of the festival consist of offering worship to cobras and snakes
by pouring milk. In several houses, clay images of snakes are worshipped.
