{"id":15291,"date":"2016-08-08T12:01:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T06:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=15288&amp;preview_id=15288"},"modified":"2016-08-08T12:01:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T06:31:38","slug":"india-celebrates-nag-panchami-with-devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=15291","title":{"rendered":"India celebrates Nag Panchami with devotion |NewsX"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> Nag Panchami is being celebrated across the country with lots of devotion and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Uttar Pradesh: Prayers being offered in Gorakhpur on the occasion of Nag Panchami <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dbNEBEi5wg\">pic.twitter.com\/dbNEBEi5wg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANINewsUP\/status\/762177701277003776\">August 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nag Panchami is a traditional Hindu festival that is celebrated to worship snakes or serpents. As per the Hindu calendar, the festival is celebrated on the fifth day of bright half of Lunar month of Shravan which falls two days after Hariyali Teej.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Karnataka: Prayers being offered in Hubli on the occasion of Nag Panchami <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LwiRQAi2vS\">pic.twitter.com\/LwiRQAi2vS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANI (@ANI_news) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI_news\/status\/762203373835788288\">August 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Uttar Pradesh: Devotees offer milk to snakes in Moradabad on the occasion of Nag Panchami. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hPvmNSnwjM\">pic.twitter.com\/hPvmNSnwjM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANINewsUP\/status\/762207755520217088\">August 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Women worship Nag Devta and offer milk to snakes on this day. They worship on this day for the wellness of their brothers and family.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Uttar Pradesh: Devotees offer prayers in Agra on the occasion of Nag Panchami. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sLesUuV3QR\">pic.twitter.com\/sLesUuV3QR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANINewsUP\/status\/762209048670461952\">August 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Nag Panchami is being celebrated across the country with lots of devotion and enthusiasm. Uttar Pradesh: Prayers being offered in Gorakhpur on the occasion of Nag Panchami pic.twitter.com\/dbNEBEi5wg \u2014 ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) August 7, 2016 Nag Panchami is a traditional Hindu festival that is celebrated to worship snakes or serpents. As per the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1159,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}