Hindu / Tamil / Shakta - Poompuhar, Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu (11.1514°N, 79.8544°E) Kaṇṇagi — the heroine of the Tamil epic Silappatikāram (5th c. CE) — avenged her husband's unjust execution by burning Madurai with her torn breast. She is deified as Pattinī Deivam across Tamil Nadu and Kodungallur Bhagavathi of Kerala, and as Pattini-Devale in Sri Lanka. Her Poompuhar statue (2001) faces the sea at her birthplace.
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