Why is the direction given by the Brahmin worshipped?
The members of the house on whose Zodiac sign the Panchami festival falls worship Panchami facing the direction given by the Brahmin. The person who worships takes some cow dung, green barley, a vessel full of yellow coloured water, sweet rice, puris and pakoda with him and worships the four directions in the fields. This prayer is for the fields and this festival is of the fields. Drums are also taken for the prayer and are played. In the villages above ours (at the top of the mountain) people take bulls to the fields and worship them and also the tools that are used in farming are worshipped. This festival is for worshipping the fields.
