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Anaimalai, Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu · 10.5756°, 76.9349°
A Shakta temple at Anaimalai near Pollachi, in existence before 1000 CE and kept by many families as their kuladevi shrine. Its goddess is unusual in being shown reclining, some 15 feet from head to foot, holding a damaru, a fire bowl, a kumkum bowl and a trident.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
Local tradition tells of a woman executed for eating from a cruel king's mango grove, whose execution stone came to be worshipped with offerings of ground red chilli.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Undetermined
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