UTHTHIRAKOSAMANGAI – MANGALANATHASWAMY TEMPLE – RAMNAD – TAMILNADU. LEGEND The Telugu Text Uttara Ramayana describes Mayasura and his apsara wife Hema, longed for a daughter and started performing penance to the great Mahadev seeking the boon for a daughter. #mnuthirakosamangai #mnramnad #mntamilnadu In the meanwhile an apsara named Madhura comes to Kailasha and entices Shiva in the absence of Parvathi. An enraged Parvathi curses Madhura to become a frog (Manduka) for twelve years and live in a well near the place where Mayasura and Hema are in penance. Madhura prays to lord Shiva, who blesses her that at the end of the twelve year period, she would become a beautiful woman & the wife of one of the greatest devotees of Shiva. After the twelfth year, she transforms into a beautiful woman and cries for help from the well. Mayasura and Hema hearing her voices pull her up from the well and adopt her as their daughter. Coming out of a Mandooka (Frog) She is called Mandodari. MANDOD
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