Navadurga (regional goddess)

Due to the forceful Portuguese conversion and intervention into their rituals, the Deity with all the other purushas had to be shifted from Gavasim to their present respective places.

The Saraswats and Daivadnyas who left to the north of Goa, established a temple in the honours of the Goddess and revering her in nine different locations.

As the legend goes, a goldsmith belonging to Daivadnya Brahmin community living in the village of Madkai was ordered by temple authorities to fabricate a mask of the goddess Navdurga.

Hence as a tradition goes the same mask of the goddess is welcomed in the goldsmith’s house on Karthik Shukla Asthami day every year.

The Redi Navadurga was shifted from Gavasi (Gancim) Goa in the 16th century to present Kanyale-Redi, Tehsil:Vengurla location of Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra.