Naga Worship in kashmir

Most of the rites prescribed in the Nilamatpurana are concerned with the nature of worship of popular deities.But there are some festivals which are particularly connected with the worship of Nagas.Thus Nila,the lord of the Ngas, was worship on the festival of the first fall of snow.in the fourth and third centuries B.C.Naga worship may have been the prinicpal religion in kashmir .Naga worship was actually snake worship. thus snakes were very  much sacred to those people.