Rasipuram Nithya Sumangali Mariamman

Rasipuram Nithya Sumangali  Mariamman

Compiled by

P.R.Ramachander

    This temple is about 500   years old and is situated   in Rasipuram  ,Near  Namakkal  of Tamil nadu .It seems  that once some people were  digging a field and blood came out and then the found out  the statue  of the Goddess in the form of a linga. Goddess  entered in to one person there  and he told thm to build a  temple for her in the village.This temple is situated  between four hils viz  Kolli malai  , alavai malai  , natha malai   and Bodha malai.

     In this temple  before the Goddess   a wooden post with three  branches representing her husband  (Kambam)  is planted  .Since the goddess   is always able to se her husband , she is called as  Nithya Sumangali..Women believe that offering worship to this Amman would also keep them as Nithya  Sumangalis.Cooked rice is the normal offering  of this temple.

   Women seeking children  do a strange  pooja in this temple.During Aipasi month, they come and remove the old kambam and plant new Kambam immediately.They take the old Kambam do pooja to it, offer curd rice to it and eat that curd rice.It seems this pooja assures them child birth .People also worship the Amman if they  have  vision problems.There is an annual festival in this temple  in the month of Aipasi

  The temple is open  between 6 am to 12 PM and 4.30 pm to 9.30 Pm.The phone number of the temple  is 04287-220411.The temple is on the road from Namakkal-Rasipuram  ,Nearest railway station is Salem.  This is a  Tamil video   about the temple  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtoHz_L8Lsc