However, in Punjab this festival is celebrated in a different month and in a different format, in the month of Bhadra (September–October) and is called "Guga Nauvami" (ninth day of lunar month during bright half of Moon). On this occasion an image of snake is made with dough and kept in a “winnowing basket” and taken round the village. Villagers offer flour and butter as oblation to the image. At the end of the parade, the snake is formally buried and women worship the snake for nine days and give offering of curds.