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Story of Nag Panchami
To all Writco writers,
Happy Nag Panchami.

History behind Nag Panchami is below.

In the Mahabharata epic, Janamejeya, the son of King Parikshita of the Kuru dynasty was performing a snake sacrifice known as Sarpa Satra, to avenge for the death of his father from a snake bite by the snake king called Takshaka. A sacrificial fireplace had been specially erected and the fire sacrifice to kill all snakes in the world was started by a galaxy of learned Brahmin sages. The sacrifice performed in the presence of Janamejaya was so powerful that...