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Sindhyat - Sindhi Festivals - Gogio - Nagpanchami 

Naagpanchami  [Gogio]

Nagpanchami - Maharashtrian woman worshiping cobara         Nagpanchami [Gogio] is yet another festival of scared month Shrivan [Savan]. This is a festival which is not limited to just Sindhi Community but is celebrated through out the India by all Hindus so this is a Hindu festival. Anant, Vasuki, Shesh, Padma, Kanwal, Karkotak, Kalia, Aswatar, Takshak, Sankhpal, Dhritarashtra and Pingal etc are the some of names of Naga kings mentioned in Hindu Puranas and in fact in the ancient time there was a human clan called Naga living on the earth. Lord Vishnu's couch, thousand headed "Sheshnag" also belongs to Nags.

         Nagpanchami is celebrated on the fifth day of bright fortnight in the month of Savan. Traditionally on this day worship of snakes is performed. Battis Shirala - a near by village to Kolhapur [Click here to learn more about city] is world famous for Nagpanchami celebration. Where almost one week ahead of festival local people start collecting Cobra and poisonous snakes, keep them in earthen pots [Matka or Handi] and on the day of festival these pots are taken to temple of Goddess Amba in procession. This is amazing fact that though the poisonous fangs are not removed but still on this day no body dies of bite of these  venomous cobras. Some of the other Indian temples famous for Nagpanchami are
Adiesha Temple in Andhra Pradesh , 
Nagaraja Temple in Kerala ,
Nagathamman Temple in Chennai and 
Hardevja Temple in Jaipur.

         In the sindhi families celebrations of Gogio have quite resemblance with Thadadi on this day, people eat food cooked on the previous day.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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