Anai Malai Masani Amman temple
Compiled by
P.R.Ramachander
This temple is situated 14 km from Pollachi and 60 km
from Coimbatore. Unlike other
Goddesses , this Goddess is seen in the
lying position position that too in the
burial ground. Burial ground in Tamil is called “Mayanam” and possibly she might have been initially
called “Mayana Sayani”. She is seen with
four hands , two of them are seen as raides up and two are lkept close to the
earth. Her devotees believe that
she can solve all their problems.
They write their problem in a paper in a slip of paper and give it to her
priest. They believe that within three weeks their problem would be completely solved.
If her devotees
are troiuble by evil spirits or if they suffer heavy losses in
business they approach the Goddess ,
appeal to the justice stone in front of her and grind chillies in the pestle
and mortar and apply it on her “Justice
stone.” They believe that by doing this their problems would be solved quickly. There are two
entirely different stories about her
origin.
1.It seems that there was a king called Nannan who was
ruling that forest area. It seems in his garden, on the banks of The Aazhi river, there was a mango tree.
He had a law that no part of trhis mango
tree including its fruits should be used by any one.. Once few ladies were
taking bath in the Aazhi river and one
of them gathered a floating mango fruit which had fallen from this tree . As
soon the king heard this the king passed a death sentence on that
girl. Though her father promised that he
will give gold equal to her weight and
81 elephants, that girl was put to
death. .Then she was buried in a burial ground on the banks of Aazhi river.
People later started seeing her movements in the burial ground and started
worshipping her and she was addressed by them as “Mayana Sayani” , It seems one of her lady friends killed
king Nannan.
2.Another story has relation to the story of Rama. It seems
when sage Viswamithra took waway Ramand
Lakshmana to kill Thadaka and protect
his fire sacrifice, Goddess Parvathi
appeared before Rama and gave him his statue . She it seems told Rama that if
he worships her in the form on an idol,
she will ensure his victory. After Rama killed Thadaga , it seems he
consecrated the idol of the Parvathi in the forest itself
so that the world would be benefitted. It is also believed that Masani
Ammam blessed Rama and gave him victory over Ravana.
The temple is
open for worship from 6 Am to 8 Pm.
Special worship is done on all
tuedays and Fridays , on Karthika days as well as on Full moon days.
There is a 19 day long festival starting from the full moon day of Thai month(
January-February.) on the
sixteenth day there is a chariot
festival as well walking on the fire pit by her devotees.. Adi Pooram , Tamil New year day and Navarathri atr also celebrated in the
twmple. This temple also maintains its own web site
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