 Sarpa Samskara / Sarpa Dosha is one of the ceremonies performed by devotees at this temple to get rid of the Sarpa Dosha (according to belief, a person, either in this birth or in any of his previous births, could be afflicted by the Sarpa (serpent) Dosha (curse) either knowingly or unknowingly, through many ways).Persons who are afflicted with this dosha are advised by astrologers/horoscope writers to perform this ceremony for their own wellbeing.Ceremony can be done either by the afflicted person himself if he is male and married, or through a priest.