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Johann Philipp Fabricius, a German, revised Ziegenbalg's and others work to produce the standard Tamil version. Seventy years after Fabricius, at the invitation of Peter Percival a Saiva scholar, Arumuka Navalar, produced a "tentative" translation, which is known as the "Navalar version," and was largely rejected by Tamil Protestants. [2]
In Sri Vidya the deity of Raja Shyamala Devi is the minister of Tripura Sundari and ruler of the heart. She is the symbolic of the Crown, being at the summit of all the deities found at this complex: [3] Raja Shyamala Devi; Sri Medha Dakshina Murthy; Sri Sarada Devi; Ganapathi; Adi Shankara; Sri Vana Durga; Sri Valli Deva Sena Shanmuka ...
Thikkurissy married three times in his life. His first wife was Sarojini Kunjamma, daughter of Madhavan Unnithan, who belonged to a prominent family in Karuvatta, Haripad, known as Samudayathil. The couple has two daughters. The eldest, Shyamala Devi Kunjamma alias Lekha was an executive engineer in Ernakulam.
The Devi Bhagavata Purana describes Matangi and her fellow Mahavidyas as war-companions and forms of the goddess Shakambhari. [12] The Shaktisamgama-tantra narrates the birth of Uchchhishta-Matangini. Once, the god Vishnu and his wife Lakshmi visited Shiva and his wife Parvati (a reincarnation of Sati) and gave them a banquet of fine foods ...
Shyamala Goli, Indian endurance swimmer; Shyamala Gopalan (1938–2009), Indian-American cancer researcher and civil rights activist; Shyamala Gopinath (born 1949), Indian bank executive; Syamala Kumari, Indian temple painter; Shyamala Pappu (1933–2016), Indian lawyer; Shyamala Rajender, plaintiff in the 1973 lawsuit Rajender v. University of ...
Mīnākṣī is a Sanskrit term meaning 'fish-eyed', [10] derived from the words mīna 'fish' and akṣī 'eye'. [11] She was also known by the Tamil name Taḍādakai 'fish-eyed one', mentioned in early historical account as a fierce, unmarried goddess as Meenakshi. [12]
The presiding deity is revered in the 7th-century-CE Tamil Saiva canonical work, the Tevaram, written by Tamil saint poets known as the nayanars and classified as Paadal Petra Sthalam. [1] The temple complex covers 10 acres and has two gateway towers known as gopurams. The tallest is the eastern tower, with 11 stories and a height of 46 metres ...
The Tamil language film Annai Velankanni was made in honor of Our Lady of Good Health with the title Annai Velankanni in 1971. It was directed by K. Thankappan, starring Gemini Ganesan , Kamal Haasan , K. R. Vijaya, Jayalalitha and Padmini.