The legacy of Samayapuram is well spread beyond Tamil Nadu and even after centuries of emigrating from India, many people in Sri Lanka, Singapore, South Africa and Fiji still maintain their loyalties to the temple and try to create similar temples and environment in their new country, raising both a cause of concern and an appreciation of diversity.There is also a Samayapuram Mariamman Temple in Tanjong Rambutan at Malaysia.There is also a shrine for Goddess Sri Samayapuram Mariamman at the Sri Veeramuthu Muneeswarar Temple which is located at Yishun Industrial Park,Singapore. The personality of the Goddess as well as the tremendes strain put on the body by the channelling (both physically and emotionally), maybe interpreted by non-believers as hysteria or hyper-excitement. Mariamman temples also typically involve Samiyattam wherein through a devotee (usually a female) Goddess Mariamman chooses to talk to help and bless the gathered devotees. Samayapuram has been used a model to describe rural folklore in a number of research works on sociology and religion.ĭuring festivals, it is not unusual to find people doing extreme things to make their bodies suffer as an act of sacrifice including, walking over a red-hot bed of charcoal and holding hot mud-vessel in bare hands. Samayapuram is a significant symbol of the native culture in rural Tamil Nadu and there a number of unique practices concerning the Mariamman temples. During this time, the temple chariot processions and teppams (lake processions) happen.Īll the Fridays in the Tamil months of Aadi (July 15 – Aug17) and Thai (Jan 15 – Feb 15) are celebrated in a grand manner. Like most Tamil temples the main festival is during the start of the summer, generally in April. Thai Poosam, usually occurring in the Tamil month of Thai. In 1991 new urchavar panchaloga idol was donated by G.Balamurugan and G.Muralikumar s/o V.Gunasekaran G.Kokila, No.1, Old Post office street, Ulundurpet, Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu Later, the control was split and currently Samayapuram is under an independent trust monitored by the Government of Tamil Nadu, which also monitors the annadanam distribution (an act of offering food to the devotees). Originally it was under the management of the Thiruvanaikaval temple, a popular one in the region. It is believed that they made a commitment to build the temple if they win the war and after attaining success they built a shrine for the Goddess. The idol was moved outside Srirangam, and later found by some of the passerby who built a temple named, the Kannanur Mariamman temple.ĭuring that period (around the 17th century CE), Trichi was ruled by the Vijayanagar kings and the area was used as an army base. It is a common belief in that part of the region that such local Gods have immense powers and they must always be satisfied by proper offerings and sacrifices. One legend says that the present deity was at the Ranganathaswamy temple at Srirangam, and one of chief priests of the temple believed that the idol caused him illness and hence asked it to be removed from the temple. There is scant history of the period before that though it is believed that the locals worship the Goddess for many centuries before building the current temple. In the early 18th century, King Vijayaraya Chakkaravarthi built the present day form of the temple. Samayapuram is the second most wealthy (in terms of cash flows) temple in Tamil Nadu after Palani. The temple attracts thousands of devotees on Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays, the holy days for Mariamman. Offerings of raw salt is also made to the Goddess by the rural devotees. It is believed by the devotees that the Goddess has enormous powers over curing illnesses and hence, it is a ritual to buy small metallic replicas, made with silver or steel, of various body parts that need to be cured, and these are deposited in the donation box.ĭevotees also offer mavilakku, a sweet dish made of jaggery, rice flour and ghee. The main deity, Samayapurathal or Mariamman, a form of supreme mother goddess Durga or Maha Kali or Aadi Shakthi, is made of sand and clay like many of the traditional Mariamman deities, and hence unlike many other Hindu deities there are no abhishekams (sacred washing) conducted to the main deity, but instead the “abishekam” is done to the small stone statue in front of it. Samayapuram Mariamman Temple is a Hindu temple in Samayapuram near Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India.
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