- Place: Gingee, Villupuram, Tamil Nadu (12.2531°N, 79.4203°E) Draupadī — the Mahābhārata queen — is worshipped as an independent village goddess in ~450 villages across northern Tamil Nadu. At Gingee, the 18-day Draupadī-amman koḍai features fire-walking (tī-mithi) — hundreds of devotees walk barefoot across a 30-ft bed of glowing coals. Alf Hiltebeitel's 30-year ethnography documented this Draupadī cult. Priests are non-Brahmin. Daily aarati (dawn + dusk); abhisheka; flower and c
Wisdom Graph: Divine Associations
MantraRegional invocations and hymns
