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There is the
mukhamandapam or namaskara mandapam in front of the sanctum. On this there is
Porkali Bhagawati in a wooden cage. One of the Rajas of Kottayarn (of north Malabar
and not the Kottayam of Travancore State), Vidwan Thampuran, who was a great patron of
Kathakali and a composer of Attakathas, considered this Devi to be Vaageeswari, the
goddess of learning and worshipped her.
There is an interesting story of the origin of this Goddess. Once a temple priest
and a Marar who was a drummer entered into a bet. The Marar said he would bring the
Devi there by playing 'pani' (ritual drumming as prescribed in the Agamas) and the priest
agreed that if the goddess materialized he would immediately offer naivedyam. The
Marar did bring forth the Goddess and as the priest had no time to cook the rice he
offered it in the same uncooked condition. Even today the offering to the deity here
is uncooked rice, rice merely washed in water. |
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