Sri Ramalinga Sowdeshwari Amman Temple
The temple is known as Sowndamman temple among the people. It belongs to the community of Devangar Chettiyar (Kannada). There are about 1000 of families of this community in and around Pollachi. The gods Sri Ramalingeshwarar and Sri Sowdeshwari Amman were the main gods and kasi Sivaganga Vinayagar, Sri Durgai amman are the other gods in this temple. Navarathri is the main festival. It starts at the amavasya day of the Tamil month named puratasi. The festival consists of 10 days.
On the first day holy rituals at the shore "KATHI PODUTHAL" ceremony brings the God to the temple. Golu is kept. After that all nine days Sowdeshwari amman is dressed as different Gods and special prayers, bhajans are conducted. On the final day that is "dhasara" evening Sri Sowdeshwari amman is dressed as Sri Chamundeeshwari amman and kept in saparam with a BOW and ARROW.Then the saparam starts from the temple and goes to the battle field to kill the ghost. After the drama of killing the ghost is done, a vannimaram is tied along with banana tree and then it will be cut. After that procession Sri Sowdeshwari amman will go to various madths"madams" built by this community people. The next day holy water from various places are bought to reduce the anger of the God. This is called alagu seva. After that full moon day Annabishekam will be held to Lord Shiva in a grand manner.
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