Anga – Sanga, Dwarapalakis of Angalamman… MA ANGA MA SANGA DWARAPALAKIS OF MA ANGALAMMAN
Those who guards Devi’s shrines are female gatekeepers and they are called as Dwarapalakis. These female guardians are often depicted with weapons like a sword and bow, which are symbolic of the deity they protect, and the Dwarapalakis those who guard Ma Angalamman are known as Ma Anga and Ma Sanga.
When Ma Parvati took the form of Angalamman and came down to the earth, her divine attendants, Anga and Sanga were also joined with the goddess, and still now they guard the temples of Ma Angalamman. In my Kula Devi Angalamman Temple at Erode, we can find two beautiful Dwarapalakis who guard outside the shrine of Ma Angalamman, and they usually appear in simple cotton sarees. Some devotees used to offer flowers to the deities, and they also used to adorn saris on some festival days or during Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
Whenever devotees try to test their fortune by placing red and white colour flowers before the deity, they also used to pray to the Dwarapalakis in order to tell their wishes to their master Ma Angalamma, and after their wishes gets fulfilled, they would please the Dwarapalakis, by offering good saris to them.
I also tested my fortune in the Angalamman Temple, Keerakara Veedhi, Erode, for a few times, but I got mixed results. But, however recently I got positive results from Devi, after the Chief Priest of the temple, Mr. B. Jagannathan prayed for my future life, and finally he has got red colour flower from the hands of a small girl.
My sincere advice to the readers of this article is, don’t ignore the Dwarapalakis, and worship them also by considering them to be an aspect of Ma Shakti Devi. Dwarapalakis are supposed to be the friends of Ma Devi, and hence whatever reasonable request placed before them would be definitely heard by their master Ma Shakti Devi, and at the appropriate time our prayers would be surely answered.
Hence let us chant the glories of Ma Anga and Ma Sanga who had got the golden opportunity to serve Ma Angalamman with great pleasure.
“OM MA ANGASANGALAMMNE NAMO NAMAHA”
WRITTEN BY
R. HARISHANKAR