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Veerampattinam, Puducherry · 11.8942°, 79.8242°
A coastal Amman temple at Veerampattinam, said to be about a thousand years old and the first in Puducherry to own a temple car. Its festival runs six consecutive Fridays from the Tamil month of Aadi, and the fifth Friday, a declared public holiday in Puducherry, draws well over a hundred thousand pilgrims; under French rule the Lieutenant Governor was invited to start the procession.
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.
A fisherman named Veeraraghavan is said to have netted a piece of wood that bled when his wife tried to split it for firewood, after which the goddess told him in a dream to make her image from it at the spot where a cobra struck the ground three times.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Undetermined
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