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English: The youngest Nagnathaiya festival actors.
Legend has it that Lord Krishna accidentally threw a ball into the river while playing with his friends. To retrieve the ball, he dived into the river and fought with "Kala", the dark cobra that had created havoc in the neighbourhood. Krishna ultimately defeated the ferocious cobra and danced on its hoods denoting his superiority over the serpent. The entire episode has since then been named as "Nag Nathaiya" and marked as a festival by devotees. It seemed that the subject could be linked with terrible pollution of the Ganges river. Someone came to the very same conclusion already 10 yrs earlier: "Organisers of the festival created a parallel to the killing of the monstrous snake by Lord Krishna with the modern day hazards of factories polluting the river Ganga - depicting the snake as the pollutant and Lord Krishna as the cleanser. >>After seeing Yamuna polluted, Lord Krishna decided to destroy the snake, and this festival "Nag Nathaiya" commemorates that event. Through this festival, we wanted to create awareness about the need to stop these polluting factories and drains from dumping sewage into the river Ganga,<< said Virbhadra Mishra, one of the festival organisers." Polluted Ganga overshadow annual Nag Nathiya festival in Varanasi October 28, 2006 |
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