| Temples & Legends Of Tamilnadu |
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| Temples & Legends Of India |
PATTESWARAM |
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| The black granite
stone image ofGoddess Durga is imposing and awe-inspiring. The face looks so benign that
the head of the devotee is reverently bowed down at the very sight of the image as we do to our mother at home. The Goddess is so powerful that since her arrival at this temple, the original temple has lost its prominence and people throng for blessings from her only. The people of the locality and devotees from experience it far and near that a desire cherished in the mind while in her presence is fulfilled on return or soon after. It has been the common experience of the devotees when they worship in this temple, after frustration in various attempts to get their daughters suitably married, that their desires have been fulfilled immediately after worshipping in the Durga temple. The charming mother is standing on a lion with the head of a buffalo and the demon Mahishasura remains lurking in disguise in the buffalo's side. She holds Sankha and Chakra in her hands. She holds a parrot in her left hand and the mane of the lion in the right. The Mother has eight hands holding different customary weapons for different occasions. |
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