3 November•Krishna Paksha Navami

Nagula Chavithi

Nagula Chavithi

Nagula Chavithi is the day of the serpent in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, on Kartika Shukla Chaturthi.

CategoryPuja & Observance

Significance & Spiritual Meaning

Spiritual philosophy, inner meaning and eternal virtues

Significance & Spiritual Meaning

Nagula Chavithi is the day of the serpent in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, on Kartika Shukla Chaturthi.

Spiritual philosophy, inner meaning and eternal virtues

Women keep a fast and pour milk at the snake pit, for the wellbeing of their children.

Key Rituals & Observance

Step-by-step sacred rituals and worship practices

  1. 1Step 1

    A fast and the worship of the snake pit with milk.

  2. 2Step 2

    Offerings of flowers.

Fasting & Parana Guidelines

✓Keep the fast from sunrise, with water, fruit or milk only if the fast is not strict.
✓Avoid grain, onion, garlic and salt in the strict form of the fast.
✓Break the fast at the time the vrat directs, after the worship.