AADI PURAM
Adi Puram is celebrated in all Hindu temples in southern India in the month called Adi or Ashadha, corresponding to the English months of July-August, when the asterism Puram (Delta Leonis) is in the ascendancy. The festival isobserved to propitiate the goddess Sakti Devi who is said to have come into this world on this occasion to bless the people.
If the festival falls on a Friday, the occasion is considered to be highly auspicious, and the people worship the goddess in a more special way.
It is said that there are eight Nidhis or Saktis (Forces of nature) in the universe and they are controlled by Devi, the goddess. The eight magical arts, called in Hindu mystic parlance the Ashta Maha Siddhis, are derived from a knowledge of those forces. They are
(1) Anima or the art of entering into a foreign body,
(2) Mahima or the art of increasing the bulk of one's body,
(3) Garuna or the art of rendering small things tremendously ponderous,
(4) Laghima or the art of lifting with ease the largest and the heaviest substances,
(5) Prapti or the art of gaining access through a small hole to Brahma's heaven,
(6) Prakamya or the art of transubstantiation and entering into various worlds of tenuous matter, procuring all things needful from these and ascertaining the localities of various substances,
(7) Isatwam the art of creating, protecting and destroying the world as well as rendering the planets obedient to the will, and
(8) Vasitwam the art of bringing all created beings under subjection including Indra and the various gods.
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