Her most important abode is the Mookambika Temple located in Kollur village in Udupi district of Tulunadu that is coastal Karnataka.

In order to restore the cosmic balance, the Trimurti (Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva) called on their wives, the Tridevi (Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Parvati) to create a form to defeat the asura.

Their combined energies culminated into a goddess, who rode on a lion and slew Mookasura, acquiring the name, Mookambika.

They granted this wish, and became a linga with a golden line, a rekha, splitting in the middle, so that one side represented the Trimurti and the other, the Tridevi.

Saraswati agreed to Adi Shankara's request, provided he led her to Kerala without looking back at her.