With Naga occupying a distinct place in Tuluva culture, Nagara Panchami is celebrated as an important festival with great pomp and gaiety.
On Wednesday, as it was Nagara Panchami , large 'serpentine' queue of devotees gathered at various temples across the district to appease the snake-god seeking his blessings for well-being.
During the festival of 'Nagara Panchami', devotees offer fresh milk, tender coconut, honey, turmeric and flowers to the stone idols of Naga installed in several temples.
Kukke Shree Subramanya temple and Anantha Padmanabha temple at Manjeshwara are the two famous temples dedicated to Naga where Nagara Panchami is the biggest festival. Thousands of devotees on Wednesday thronged from far and wide places to these temples to offer their prayers and vows that they had visited to perform a fulfilment of their desires. Devotees offered milk to the god through the priests of these temples.
The markets in cities as well as villages wore a busy look as the people on the eve of Panchami were seen buying areca spatha, plantain leaves, turmeric leaves and flowers, some of the commodities needed during the celebrations.
On Panchami, a lavish meal is prepared at the household level with delicacies like 'manjal erethe gatti' being typical about the celebration along with payasam.
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