Today is Nagara Panchami Festival.
Here is the story regarding this.
Long ago, there lived a poor brahmins called Ved Sharma.
He had 8 boys and 1 girl by the name Sushila as children.
Ved Sharma was feeding food to a snake. In return, snake was giving one gold coin daily to Ved Sharma. With that, the family was passing through the days.
The boys when they were grown up, observed this. Now they have become lazy and greedy.
They started pressurising snake to give more gold coins daily to them.
Snake was getting angry day by day. One day, its patience limit was over and it bit all the 8 boys to death.
Sushila was getting anxious and worried. She prayed to God Vishnu for the solution.
Pleased by her prayers, God Vishnu ordered snake King Vasuki to make the boys to live with good knowledge and fortune.
That day was Panchami and from then onwards, it was believed that as an auspicious day and offering prayers to Snake God will give good fortunes.
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