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High medieval · Hindu · India
Mondaicaud Amman Temple
Mandaikadu, Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu · 8.1633°, 77.2802°
Adi Parashakti, worshipped as BhagavathiUndeterminedDravidian
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A goddess temple near Colachel on the Kanyakumari coast, so heavily attended by women pilgrims that it is called the women's Sabarimala; its Maasi Kodai festival is the chief annual event. It is noticed in nineteenth-century writing including the Aithiga Mala of 1889 and in district gazetteers.