Jakkamma is the caste deity of Rajakambalam Nayakar peoples. It is the family deity of all the 9 subcastes of Kambalatars. In

Panchalankurichi Panchalankurichi is a village, 3 km from Ottapidaram and 21 km from Thoothukudi in Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu, India. Panchalankurichi was once a Palayam and is best known as the birthplace of Veerapandiya Kattabomman, an 18th ...

, a temple for Jakkamma had been built by

Veerapandiya Kattabomman Veerapandiya Kattabomman was an 18th-century Palayakarrar and king of Panchalankurichi in present-day Tamil Nadu, India. He fought the British East India Company and was captured by the British with the help of the ruler of the kingdom of Pu ...

family. Jakkamma also called in some places as Bommamma.

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