Near Madurai in Tamilnadu,is a VishnuTemplein Villiputtur,where Vishnu is worshipped as Vatapatrasayee.A Brahmin named Vishnuchitta,offered garlands to the god on this temple every morning. One day he found a newborn girl lying under a Tulsi tree in the garden of this temple. He brought the baby home and brought her up as his own child,and named her Goda,or the giver of wealth and prosperity.As Goda reached her teens,she grew up into a beautiful maiden and had the talent of writing beautiful poems whose subject was her love for Vishnu. She had the courage of her conviction,that she was the chosen