Paper Mache Golu Doll Srivilliputhur Andal Statue showpiece for Home Decor Navratri golu Display choodikodutha sudarkodi

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The beautiful andal idol is made of paper mache material. In tamil, andal is called as “soodikodutha sudarkodi” About Andal idol: Andal (Tamil: ஆண்டாள்), also known as Kothai, Nachiyar, and Godadevi, was the only female Alvar among the twelve Hindu poet-saints of South India. She was posthumously considered an avatar of the goddess Bhudevi. As with the Alvar saints, she was affiliated to the Sri Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism. Andal’s origins bears similarities to that of Sita’s. In the Ramayana, Janaka finds Sita in a furrow while ploughing the land as part of a yagna. According to the ‘Balakanda’, the first chapter of the Valmiki Ramayana (considered to be a later addition to the epic), Sita was born not from the womb of a woman, but from the womb of the earth itself. Often, Sita is associated with Bhudevi and so is Andal, as the consort of Lord Vishnu. In the ‘Uttarakanda’, the final chapter of (and another later addition to) the Valmiki Ramayana, Sita asks that Bhudevi take her back, and is swallowed by the earth, never to be seen again. Andal, too, is said to have disappeared in the Sri Ranganatha/Vishnu temple at Srirangam. Legend goes that she reached the doors of the sanctum sanctorum, where she merged into gold. By the sixteenth century, Andal was worshipped as a goddess by the devotees. Often, along with Sridevi (incarnation of Lakshmi), Andal is seen beside Lord Vishnu as his consort in the form of Bhudevi.