India, April 9 -- By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist

We have all heard the story of Ram, a prince from North India, who went to the southern tip of India. But when was the last time you heard of a queen who travelled from Madurai in the south to Kailasa in the North to find herself a groom. That princess was called Tadaatagai, more popularly known as Meenakshi, she whose eyes are as shapely as the contours of a fish.

The Pandya king of Madurai was childless and the gods blessed him with a daughter who was born from a pit of fire. She had three breasts and it was foretold that the extra breast would disappear the day she met a man worthy of being her husband.

She was raised as in the royal arts and scie...