Important Goddess Temples to visit during this Sacred Aadi Month in Thanjavur

Thanjavur, always attracts large number of tourists, who mainly come to admire the heritage and historical beauties. Also the number of tourists, who specifically comes to Thanjavur mainly for offering prayers and visiting important ancient temples are never low compared to those who comes for the sake of sightseeing.

Simple Vilakku Pooja picture from my relative's home

As I’ve previously written that, ’Aadi month is the perfect time to worship the women deities’. In every home during Aadi Fridays’, Tuesdays’, Aadi pooram and Aadi perukku is celebrated divinely. In every house, people light lamps (Deepaam) in front of the deities in their Pooja room, chant Lalitha Sahasranamam, Abhirami Andhadhi, Soundarya lahari and many more Devi Stotrams to gain prosperity, happiness and heathy life. Many people offers special Neivedhanam (Prasadam) to goddess in their home as well as in temples. 

The Delicious Thanjavur Special Ashoka Halwa for Neivedhyam in my relative's house

I planned to write about the Shakti peethams of Thanjavur every Friday, but couldn’t cope with, as I was travelling.

In this post I’ve written about 6 important goddess Temples to visit during this Aadi month. I’m restricting myself to write about the temples which are in and 6 kms radius from the heart of the main city.

• The first important Goddess is Varahi Amman, located in the mighty Brihadheeshwara Temple. The shrine here is exclusively dedicated to Goddess Varahi, which you can’t witness in any other part of the World.

Varahi Amman

• The Bangaru Kamakshi Amman temple is dedicated to Bangaru kamakshi. I’ve written elaborately about this temple in one of the previous posts of mine. This temple is located in the heart of the main city, in the West Main Street, which the street itself is filled with more number of temples.

Bangaru kamakshi

• Punnainallur Mariyamman Temple is one of the ‘Must-Visit’ temple. The main deity, Mariyamman is made up of sand, so no abhishekam to the goddess here. It’s located in the outskirts of the city, which is 7 kms from the Town Bus stand (Old bus stand).

Punnainallur Mariyamman 

Image Courtesy : Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12290744

• Kodiyamman Kovil, this temple is located at the entrance of Thanjavur itself, if you come from Kumbakonam or Thiruvaiyaru. My recent post was about the history of the temple only. She’s a powerful goddess comprised of both the powers of Lord Shiva and Goddess Shakti. This temple is located around 6-7kms from the Town bus stand (Old bus stand), Thanjavur.

Kodiyamman 

• Nisumbasudhini Amman temple is located in the area of East Gate (Keezha Vasal). This Amman (Goddess) is also known as Vada Bhadra Kali Amman, Raaghukaala Kaali Amman etc. She (Kali) is the war deity of Chozhas. This temple is one of the ancient temple established by Vijayalaya Chozha. This temple is located within 2 kms from the Town bus stand (Old bus stand).

Nisumbasudhini Amman

• Ekauri Amman temple is located in the village of Vallam, in the highway which runs from Thanjavur to Trichy. This temple offers lime juice as Prasad. The goddess here is with 2 faces, one with ferocious and anger and other face is calm and peaceful. This Amman (Goddess) is also known as Vallathu Pattikai, Makali etc. This temple is located within 6 kms from the New Bus stand of Thanjavur.

 Image courtesy : http://wanderingtamil.blogspot.com/2018/03/vallam-ekavuri-temple.html

Egowri Amman

The reason I’m writing about this temple is to help my readers to know of many unspoken powerful and ancient temples located in and around our places. This Aadi month, may everyone be blessed with all the happiness by Goddess Parvathi aka Shakti.

Yours East Gaterr