Tradition and non secular fervour marked the Nagula Chavithi celebrations in Visakhapatnam on Friday. Devotees in conventional apparel thronged the few available snake pits to rejoice the event from early on within the day, they later visited close by temples.
As a results of urbanisation, snake pits are dwindling. While the fortunate households, which had snake pits close to their colonies, walked right down to them, carrying supplies required for the puja, others needed to journey to far off locations just like the zoo, Hanumanthawaka, Arilova and the outskirts of town looking for snake pits.
At Yellammathota, positioned at Jagadamba junction, the guts of town, ladies fashioned serpentine queues on the few snake pits available close to the old temple of Goddess Yellamma. They poured milk and put eggs into the pits as choices to the ‘Snake God’.
Meanwhile, as ladies had been providing prayers at one nook, vagabonds had been seen accumulating the supplied eggs by placing their arms into the pits, which might be washed and resold out there. Children performed with fireworks at some locations. Nagulachavithi is well known 4 days after Deepavali.
The levelling of the AU Engineering College grounds through the Global Investors Summit, led to the disappearance of a number of snake pits, forcing the resident of Maddilapalem and close by areas to go to Hanumanthawaka and Arilova.
The zoo recorded 9,150 devotees, raking in a income of ₹8,14,753 on a single day, in line with a press release issued by Indira Gandhi Zoological Park (IGZP).
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