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Arulmigu Dhandumariamman Temple
- Avinashi,Tamil Nadu
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The Arulmigu Dhandumariamman Temple is located in Avinashi and is dedicated to Arulmigu Dhandumariamman. The annual festival of the temple starts on the first Tuesday during the Chithirai month and is celebrated continuously for 13 days with great dedication. Right from music to dance, the event has been successful since its inception. Along with pooja, the holy lamp festival is celebrated on the fourth day of the Chitirai festival and has greater importance. Women seek the mercy of Shakti and pray to her, offering bananas, rice, coconut, incense sticks, camphor, beetle leaves, bangles and sweet pongal. Shakti Karaga Vazhipadu holds a significant importance where the procession begins at the temple and the deity is taken in and around streets, offering food to the devotees on behalf of the temple's management. Also Maha Abhishekam is conducted in due course.
Significance
Devotees visit this temple to seek fulfillment of the following:-
- To get married soon
- For general well-being
- To get rid of mental and physical ailments
Shlokas
Yaa Devi Sarva Bhooteshu Shakthi Roopena Samsthita Namastasyai Namastasyai Namastasyai Namo Namaha
Meaning -Salutations to the Goddess who resides as Shakti in all beings.
Moola Mantra Om Dhum Durgayai Namaha
Meaning -
Sarva Mangala Maangalye Sive Sarvaardha Saadhike, Saranye Tryambake Gauri Naarayani Namosthuthe
Meaning -We offer you our salutations, Oh auspicious Naraayani, who is the good of all good, who can achieve everything and can offer refuge, Oh three-eyed Gowri.
Saranaangatha Dheenaartha Parithraana Paraayane Sarvasyaarthi Hare Devi Naaraayani Namosthuthe
Meaning -We offer salutations to you, Oh Narayani, who has the infinite power of creating, preserving and destroying. You are the basis and epitome of the 3 gunas.
Timings
6 a.m. to 1 p.m. 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.