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GODDESS ANKAMMA THALLI charitham
ANKAMMA THALLI IS THE GREAT DIETY OF
MUDHIRAJU/CHOLA DYNASTY.SHE IS WORSHIPPED AS A
STATUE WITH EIGHT HANDS IN TELANGANA REGION AND
AS A PAINTING OF TURMERIC WITH KUMKUMA DOTS ON
THAT PAINTING.USUALLY ANKAMMA SHRINES ARE NOT
SEEN INSIDE THE CITY BUT THEY ARE FOUND OUTSIDE
THE VILLAGE IN THICK BUSHES AND TREES .THE WORD
ANKAMMA WAS DERIVED FROM WORDS AANK+AMMAWHICH
MEANS GODDESS WITH NUMBER OF EYES.SHE WAS
CALLED AS MEENAKSHI DEVI IN MADHURA AND KAMAKSHI
DEVI IN KANCHIPURAM AND NAYANADEVI IN NORTH.SHE IS
THE GODDESS WITH OUT VEDIC INFLUENCE.THE WAYOF
WORSHIPP IS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM VEDIC
WAYS.SHE IS SAID TO BE THE MOTHER OF TRINITY IN
HINDUISM(BRAHMA,VISHNU,MAHAESHWARA).SHE IS
SOMETIMES REFERED AS INCARNATION OF GODDESS
PARVATHI DEVI.THE WORD ANKAMU MEANS LAP .THE
GODDESS WHICH SIT IN THE LAP OF LORD SHIVA IS
REFERED AS ANKAMMA AND OBVIOUSLY LORD PARVATHI
DEVI.
IN NORTH ANKAMMA WAS TREATED AS GODDESS
WHO CAN CURE ALL THE DISEASES BY SIMPLY LOOKING
AT THEM WITH HER EYES(AAANK).AN ANDHRA MAN WHO
WAS LIVING IN UJJAIN USED TO PRAY MAHANKALI DAILY.AS
THE TIME PASSED THE RELATIVES AND NEIGHBOURS IN
HIS NATIVE PLACE WERE DREADFULLY ATTACKED BY A
SERIOUS DISESASE NAMED CHOLERA WHICH HAS NO
MEDICINE IN THAT TIME. HE HAS NO WAY TO RETURN TO
HIS NATIVE LAND TO LOOK AFTER HIS PEOPLE. BEFORE
COMING HE WENT TO MAHANKALI TEMPLE AND PRAYED
HER TO MAKE HIS PEOPLE TO RECOVER BY SAYING THAT
HE WOULD BUILD A TEMPLE IN ANDHRA FOR HER.HE CAME
TO HIS NATIVE LAND WITH AMBALI (ANKAMMA PRASADAM)
AND GAVE IT TO ALL THE PEOPLE SURPRISINGLY ALL OF
THEM GOT CURED FROM THAT DISEASE.TO FULLFILL HIS
OATH HE CONSTRUCTED A TEMPLE IN HYDRABAD FOR
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ANKAMMA THALILI AND PLACED HER FOUR SISTERS IN THE
TEMPLE AND HER BROTHER POTHURAJU.AND THERE BY
SHE WAS CALLED AS UJJAIN MAHANKALI IN ANDHRA.
ORIGIN OF ANKAMMA THALLI:
AS PER VEDAS ANKAMMA THALLI WAS THE
CRATOR OF HINDU TRINITY AND TURNED TO TRISHAKTHI
(PARVATHI SARSWATHI LAKSHMI ).THE ENTIRE STREGTH
OF TRISHAKTHI WAS SEEN IN PARVATHI DEVI. IN EARLIER
DAYS IN SOME REGION OF ANDHRA PRADESH
WORSHIPPING OF VISHNU AND SHAKTHI WAS STRICTLY
PROHIBITED . AND THE DEVOTEES OF THEM ARE SO
MUCH INSULTED. BY COMING TO KNOW THIS PARVATHI
TURNED FURIOUS AND WOKE THE ANKAMMA THALLI
HIDDEN IN HER AND HIS BROTHER POTHURAJU TO TECH A
LESSON TO THOSE PEOPLE.ANKAMMA AND HIS BROTHER
TURNED TO FORTUNE TELLERS AND STARTED TO WANDER
IN THE REGION WHERE THEY WERENT WORSHIPPED.THEY
USED TO SHOW THE PEOPLE THEIR ORIGINAL SHAPES AND
FIERCE THEM.THE PEOPLE DECIDED TO MAKE THEM RUN
AWAY FROM THEIR REGION. THEN ANKAMMA DISGUISED
INTO ANOTHER FORM AND WENT TO KINGDOM AND MET
THE QUEENS OF KINGS WHO ARENOT ALLOWING TO DO
HER POOJA.SHE TOLD THEM THAT THEIR KINGDOM WAS
GOING TO FACE MANY PROBLEMS IN FUTURE TO PREVENT
THAT THAT THEY MUST OFFER A GOAT TO GODDESS
ANKAMMA. QUEENS HAVE SAID THAT THEY COULDNT DO
AS THEIR HUSBANDS WONT ALLOW. THEN SHE GAVE AN
IDEA TO MAKE DOLL GOAT AND KNIFE AND OFFER TO
GODDESS.QUEENS AFTER ACCEPTING THAT MADE A DOLL
GOAT AND KNIFE AND OFFERED TO ANKAMMA THALLI
.SURPRISINGLY DOLLS WERE TURNED TO REAL ONE AND
BLOOD IS SHEDDING LIKE FLOOD THROUGH OUT THE
KINGDOM.ALL THE PEOPLE PRAYED FOR LORD SHIVA TO
STOP THE FLOW OF BLOOD .THEN SHIVA TOLD THEM
THAT IT WAS CURSE OF ANKAMMA THALLI I CANT DO
ANYTHING TO STOP THAT THE KING MUST SACRIFICE HIS
LIFE AND COME TO KAILASA. THEN THE KING ACCEPTED
AND WHILE SHIVA TAKING HIM TO KAILASA WITH HELP OF
TRIDINTY ANKAMMA THREW ARROWS TO THAT ALL THE
PEOPLE TOLD THAT LET HIM GO TO KAILASAM THEY WILL
WORSHIP HER. THEN GODDESS REMAINED IN PEACE AND
TURNED TO GULP OF TURMERIC.
AFTER FEW YEARS PASSED THE KINGDOM HAS
NEGLECTED THE GODDESS WHO WAS THE CAUSE FOR
MISSING OF THEIR BELOVED KING AND STOPPED
WORSHIPPING THEN THEY PACKED UP ALL HER
BELONGINGS IN A BASKET WEAVED OUT OF THIN BAMBOO
AND LEFT IN THE RIVER THESE WERE FOUND BY PEOPLE
IN OTHER KINGDOM THE KING OF THAT REGION CAME TO
KNOW THIS AND BOWED HIS HEAD TO GODDESS STATUE.
IN HIS DREAM GODDESS ASKED HIM TO WORSHIP IN HIS
KINGDOM SHE WILL LOOK AFTER THE KINGDOM IN NEED
AND DISSAPEARED.