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Kannagi, sometimes spelled Kannaki, is a legendary Tamil woman who forms the central character of the Tamil epic Cilappatikaram. Kannagi is described as the chaste woman who stays with her husband despite his unfaithfulness, their attempt to rebuild their marriage after her husband had lost everything but repented, how her husband is falsely framed then punished without the due checks and processes of justice. Kannagi proves and protests the injustice, then curses the king and city of Madurai leading to the death of the unjust Pandyan King of Madurai, who had wrongfully put her husband Kovalan to death. The society that had made her suffer, suffers in retribution as the city Madurai is burnt to the ground because of her curse.
In Tamil folklore, Kannagi has been deified as the symbol – sometimes as goddess – of chastity, with sculptures or reliefs in Hindu temples iconographically reminding the visitor of her breaking her anklet or tearing her bleeding breast and throwing it at the city. She is also identified as Pattini in Sri Lankan Tamil tradition.
Her reliefs and idols are particularly found in historic goddess tradition Hindu temples of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
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This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
Media in category "Kannagi"
The following 12 files are in this category, out of 12 total.
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Chariot under a Pandal.jpg 800 × 600; 117 KB
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Goddess Kannaki.jpg 1,256 × 1,740; 444 KB
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Halpe Pattini Devalaya at Ella 1.jpg 3,264 × 2,448; 3.58 MB
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Halpe Pattini Devalaya at Ella 2.jpg 3,264 × 2,448; 4.24 MB
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Lindamulla Pattini Devalaya.jpg 3,264 × 1,840; 2.35 MB
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Puhar-Kannagi-Kovalan (cropped).jpg 591 × 811; 135 KB
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Puhar-Kannagi-Kovalan.jpg 1,122 × 1,668; 231 KB
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Puhar-KannagiInPandyaCourt.jpg 1,431 × 1,449; 427 KB
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Silappatikaram (7).jpg 2,004 × 3,288; 1,007 KB
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Silappatikaram (9).jpg 3,388 × 2,914; 2.18 MB
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Thamb Entrance.jpg 2,272 × 1,704; 433 KB
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Thambiluvil Amman.jpg 540 × 720; 101 KB