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PetchiAmman is one of the popular goddess in south india and srilanka. The tamils and malayalees have been worshipping this famous goddess as main family deity or one of their family deities. The current tamil communities namely Nadar, Thevar, Mudaliar, Nayakkars and Pillais have been worshipping this goddess as their family deity. 'Petchi' means 'the goddess who serves their disciples to be strong on their speech, wordings, debating, and writing. It is a form of the goddess of power. We all know the main hindu goddesses and their serving areas are 'Saraswathi' for educational and artistical; 'Lakshmi' for wealth; 'Parvathi' for brave and health. 'Dhurka'is 'Parvathi'. This PetchiAmman is mainly known in the form of 'Dhurka' but and also known as an integrated form of all three main hindu goddesses 'Saraswathi', 'Lakshmi' and Parvathi'. There is some say that 'PetchiAmman' is a goddess from 'Samanam' religion founded by 'Mahaveer'. This religion was equally famous with 'Saivam' and 'Vainavam' subreligions of hinduism in Madurai during Pandyas' ruling regimes.

Contents: 1.History PetchiAmman goddess has been in the history for the past 15 centuries. All the traditional kingdoms of Pandyas, Cheras, Cholas, and Pallavas from tamilnadu and kerala states have recognized this goddess and placed this idol one of their goddesses in the temples they built. Cholas and Pandyas and current time tamils spread the presence of this goddess to Srilanka, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

2.Spread Across south india and srilanka, PetchiAmman goddess has several temples in its name where it is the main goddess. Several other famous temples in this region also have PetchiAmman idol as one of the residing goddess in them. This goddess is popular in rural south indian communities. Yes, PetchiAmman is a 'Rural goddess'. Some of the erst while rural areas divinised by PetchiAmman have now become urban areas or areas being urbanised. Madurai Petchiamman Padithurai is a famous traditional place in Madurai city. This goddess PetchiAmman is residing there in a temple. This place is used by Madurai people to access the river Vaigai during festival celebrations. If you hit wikimapia with the word either 'PetchiAmman' or 'PechiAmman' or 'PaechiAmman' or 'Petchiyamman' or 'Pechiyamman' or all of the above with a prefix Sri, you will get the location of small temples across Tamilnadu, Pondicherry, Kerala and North & NorthEast Srilanka.

3.Big Temples There is no famous big temples available for the goddess PetchiAmman like Meenakshiamman temple, Kamachiamman temple, and Mariamman temples. But there is one famous big temple existing in Kochi, Kerala popularly known as 'SriPetchiamman temple'. YOu can see this in http://gallery.bizhat.com/showphoto.php/photo/29432/size/big

4.Communicating with disciples This goddess choose some women disciple from the worshipping community and communicating with its other disciples / worshippers during poojas or festivals. This goddess is very powerful during two days in a year. First one is during the third day from Maha shivratri which is a no moon day. This falls during the day of 'Sadayam' nakshatra. The second one is on 18 th day of tamil month 'Aadi' usually falls on either 2nd or third day of August every year. While its divine communication through some chosen women, these women forget themselves for that particular period. They can not remember what had happened when this goddess was in their body. May be the soul is being replaced with that of the divine goddess. It guides the disciples what to do and what not to do, what to choose and what not to choose, which way to go and which way is not. What are the parihars (countering) one has to do to get rid of their bad fate? Generally these parihars are 'going to a temple on certain period or day and do some poojahs with some auspicious materials like country sugars, jasmine flowers, betalvane and arecanuts, towels, importantly lemon and kumkums etc. These parihars are mainly suggested by this goddess to get health, wealth and other prosperities like children and education.

5.Worshipping as a group Generally, this goddess organise the family members (Pangalis) based on male hereditory and all their generations are meeting together, planing for doing some pooja or for celebrating some festivals together. They estimate the amount required and divide the same to each family and collect from them.