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Tiṇṭukkal (திண்டுக்கல்) is the name of a city where is celebrated a festival in honour of the Śītalā-Devī form of Devī whose Pratimālakṣaṇa (Śakti-based iconographical details) are discussed in verse 1.106 of the Śrītattvanidhi of Śrī Kṛṣṇarāja Uḍaiyar (in its Tañcāvūr Sarasvatī Mahal Library edition). Śītalādevī is digambarī (nude) and seated on a donkey (rāsabha). Śītalā—“She who makes cold”—is a goddess presiding over smallpox, causes pestilences, and eradicates epidemics if duly propitiated. [...] Festivals celebrating the Goddess Śītalā in the hot month of May are popular today; e.g. in Tiṇṭukkal, Vīrapāṇṭi, Virutunakar and Periyakuḷam. People propitiate the Goddess carrying sacred fire-pots (Fig. 4) called agnicaṭṭi. of which the Kōṭṭai-Māriyammaṉ temple in Tiṇṭukkal is famous.
Note: The place Tiṇṭukkal derives the name from tiṇṭu “pillow”, the pillow-like granite hill in the city. The fort (kōṭṭai) on the rock belonged to the local Zamīndārs, and this was where Ūmaiturai hid. He was the brother of Vīrapāṇṭiya-Kaṭṭabommaṉ (hanged in 1789) that rose against British imperialism (Kalidos 1976: 272–276, Rajarajan 2019: 43–45). The ruins of a Nāyaka period temple (cf. Parthiban 2013, Kalidos 2019) destroyed by Tipu Sūltān remain on the summit of the hill that has two inscriptions on its walls (Annual Reports on Epigraphy, 1894, no. 2; 1961–1962, no. 320). Tāṭikkompu is close to Tiṇṭukkal (Gopalakrishnan 1996: 415–431).
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