The Attukal Bhagavathy Temple is a shrine at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. The temple is renowned for the annual Attukal Pongala festival, in which over a million women participate
The Goddess Kannaki (Parvathi) is the main deity in this temple. It is said that on her way to Kodungalloor, Kannagi passed Attukal. She took the form of a little girl. An old man was sitting on the banks of a stream, when the girl went to him and asked him whether he could help her cross it. Surprised to find the young girl alone, he took her home. But she disappeared. She came back in his sleep and asked him to build a temple where he found 3 golden lines in his grove. He went ahead and did the same, and it is said that this is at the location of the present Attukal temple.
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