Today’s festivals

Serpent deity worship — milk and flowers offered to snake idols

• Snake worship
• Milk offering

Monday fast in the sacred month of Shravana — Lord Shiva worship; Sawan Somvar

• Shiva puja
• Milk abhishek
• Bilva offering
• Rudrashtakam recitation

Anticipated birth anniversary of Kalki — the tenth and future avatar of Vishnu