About Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari

Sri Vasavi Maatha is hailed with veneration for promoting peace and Ahimsa during the 11th century AD. She is credited with averting war and thereby saving many lives through logic and reason and overcoming brute force. She taught the world harming oneself or others isn't the way forward but bringing a change of heart is what matters in averting wars.She is elevated with heavenly stature as a goddess amongst some sections of the Komati community and for some of these sections has become the "Kula Daivam" or the caste goddess. She is the caste goddess for the Arya Vysya, Kalinga Vysya, Arava Vysya, Marathi Vysya, Beri Vysya and Trivarnika Vysya community as per the various versions of Vasavi Puranamulu written in Telugu during the 18th century AD.