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Shri Kamakshi Amman

Kamakshi Amman, Kanchipuram - Year 1951

In the calm of the night, when the world sleeps, the breeze brings with it the fragrance of fresh water lilies in full bloom. With the moon’s reflection dancing around these full bloom lilies, it is the blissful moment of the night to be imbibed within the soul. The tranquility of the breeze in the leaves, the shimmering waves of the water as the moon shines through, dotted with lilies letting loose their fragrance is for the world to catch a glimpse of this inner beauty. The brightness of the sun by day parallels the calm of the moon by night as time moves from the sunshine to the moonlight across the brow of the Mother Goddess Kamakshi.

Such are the words that describe so beautifully the form of the Mother in the Soundarya Lahari. An ocean of beauty, far deeper than the star lit clear sky by night glowing in the presence of the moon. Within the chamber that houses the Goddess one can feel this silence of the night, this fragrance in the air. The darkness of the inner chamber, lit up with the lamps that bring the glow to her face, the Mother sits within, calm and compassionate to her children, her lotus eyes in partial bloom which is just truly divine.

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Sri Akilandeswari Devi

Sri Akilandeswari Devi

According to legend, there lived a saint called Jambu Rishi, who was an ardent devotee of Lord Shiva. He once found a very rare fruit called “Venn Naaval Pazham” (white Naaval fruit) and he offered it to Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva ate the fruit and spitted out the seed of the fruit.

Out of his overwhelming Bhakthi, Jambu Rishi ate the seed, because of its sacred nature as it came out of Lord Shiva’s mouth. The seed which he ate started growing as a Naaval tree from the Rishi’s head. The Rishi prayed Lord Shiva to take abode and settle under the tree. The Lord agreed to him and said that, a time will come when I would come and settle under this Naaval Tree. This place then came to be known as Jambugeswaram.

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Khandeshwari Devi

Devi

Khandeshwari Devi Temple is situated at Beed in Maharashtra. This temple is set in the east of the Kankaleshwar temple. The temple holds the idol of goddess Khandeshwari Devi which was constructed by Ahilyabai Holkar. Every year Dussehra is celebrated very devotedly in the temple.

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Yogeshwari Devi

Devi

Yogeshwari Devi

Yogeshwari is a Sanskrit name which means "Goddess Durga". Sometimes even pronounced as Jogeshwari or Jogeswari.

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Jivantika Maa

Devi Jivantika Maa

Jivantika Maa

She is the Divine Goddess of Midwifery. Jivantika is also the guardian of children. The cult of mother goddess worship led to the divine baby sitter also. Love for the family and their children are beyond motherly frailties. It is instinctive of mothers to nurture and protect their offspring. Mothers appeased the gods and goddesses to avoid harm to their families. This culminated in worshipping fierce goddesses who
personify childhood protection against ailments and fatal diseases. Fierce child
protection goddesses of note are Jivantika and Goddess Shasti (posted earlier).
Shasti is the companion of the boy-god Sastha. She is the Goddess of Married
Women, Fertility and Childbirth. She represented fertility, pregnancy and
childbirth protection. It is said that this companionship is indicative of her
protecting the young, symbolically Shashta and his cat. It is said Shahsti
visits the child the first week of birth and writes their destiny on their
forehead. Jivantika, on the other hand is infinite protection.

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Kamakhya Devi Maa

Devi Kamakhya Maa

Kamakhya Devi Maa

Kamakhya was in Guwahati which is an quality of the Hindu idol Sati. A temple in her honour exist in the Kamrup region of Assam state, India. The holy place is one of the 51 holy Shakti Peethas linked to Sati.

Kamakhya, the Goddess/yoni, exist in the major holy place as a great crevice in the basis, cover by water smooth increasing from an secretive spring it was usually cover by a red cloth, flower, and was red sindur crush. Kamakhya which is an significant of Shakta pilgrimage site, attract many guests. One more name of this deity is sodashi.