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THE GODDESS WHO HAS PERIODS

There are other shrines in Kerala like Thirumandamkunnu, Kodungallur and Panayannar kavu where the main Pratishta is Siva but the importance is for Bhagavati. How does one account for this?   This writer met octogenarian Balakrishna Varrier that had served the temple as an attendant for forty years Explaining the phenomenon he half-jokingly asked me "Have you heard it said that Siva becomes. Sava (corpse) without his consort, Uma 'Then he quoted the firs sloka of Saundarya Lahiri:

"Siva saktya yukto yadi bhavati saktahprabha vidtum

na chedevam devo nakhalu kusalah spanditumapi

Atastwamaradhyam Hari Hera virinchadibhi rapi

pranantum stotum va kathamkritapunyah Prabhavati."

 

 

 

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