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Discovering Ghousiga

We go to Ghousiga Subramaniaswamy shrine around 10. It is a Tuesday, and the temple is packed. The winding queue extends out to the road. We decide to view from outside, and end up getting a good glimpse of Murugan from the East entrance. To the left of the East entrance, is a small Thulasi Mutthumariamman shrine. The shopkeeper woman tells Deepa di that this Amman was submerged in a well that used to be here when she was young. Mohammad Ghouse brought the amman out and installed her there, in a small shrine you once used to need to bend to enter. Only after the temple’s last kumbhabhishekam in 2018 (??), was the room height increased and the Amman shrine becomes what it is now. We see the patrikai for this Amman shrine’s Brahmotsavam, which begins...Tomorrow!!

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