How were the five daughters (in the form of snakes) of Lord Shiva born?
According to the Shivmahapuran, once Lord Shiva was sitting in penance in the waters of the Ganges. It has been many years since he did penance. One day, due to the glory of penance, drops of sweat came out of his body. Those drops took the form of five snakes.
Five snakes took the form of beautiful girls. When Lord Shiva woke up from penance, he saw those girls. Lord Shiva and those five girls started playing in the water of the Ganges.
Meanwhile, Mother Parvati came there. When he saw those girls playing with Shiva. Seeing this she got furious. He said, "Who are you playing with my swami in the water?" Mother Parvati got angry and started cursing him. She did not know that these girls were her daughters. Meanwhile, Lord Shiva started saying, “wait Parvati, what are you going to do! It is born from the sweat of my penance. That's why they are our daughters.”
Mother Parvati was pleased to hear this. He hugged his daughters and started loving them. Lord Shiva named them Jaya, Vishhara, Shamliwari, Dotli and Dev.
Lord Shiva told about his daughters that whoever worships these snake girls on the fifth day of Shukla Paksha of the month of Sawan, their family will not be afraid of snakebite.
