Protested against the oppressive mulakkaram (often called “breast tax”), cuting off her breasts and placing them on a plantain leaf before the tax collector. The tale holds that the rulers abolished this tax shortly thereafter, and the area where she lived became known as Mulachiparambu, meaning “land of the breasted woman”.

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She reportedly died from blood loss, and in grief, her husband Chirukandan committed self-immolation on her funeral pyre becoming a rare case of male sati.