{"id":6797,"date":"2024-08-09T09:17:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T03:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2024-08-09T09:17:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T03:32:33","slug":"nag-panchami-being-marked-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nag-panchami-being-marked-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Nag Panchami being marked today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Aug. 9: The Nag Panchami Festival that falls on the Shrawan Shukla Panchami as per the lunar calendar is being observed today across the country by Hindus as per the time-honoured tradition.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is being marked by worshipping Nag or the snake god and pasting a picture of the snake god above the main door of the house.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that sticking the picture of the snake god safeguards the family from snakes and scorpions, fire and lightning.<\/p>\n<p>Nag Puja is believed to have started in the Vedic time and Nag is considered the king of snakes as per the Vedic tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Special Pujas are being offered at Nagpokhari and Taudaha in Kathmandu, Siddhapokhari in Bhaktapur and several other ponds and shrines across the country this day.<br \/>\nAfter worshipping, the snake god is offered cow milk, Akshata, Dubo grass, rice pudding and Roti with due respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Aug. 9: The Nag Panchami Festival that falls on the Shrawan Shukla Panchami as per the lunar calendar is being observed today across the country by Hindus as per the time-honoured tradition. The festival is being marked by worshipping Nag or the snake god and pasting a picture of the snake god above the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6799,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions\/6799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}