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Tradition says
The kuladevatas brought by the migrating clans included Mangesh, Shantadurga, Nagesh, Mahalakshmi, Saptakoteshwar and Mahalasa.
Historians say
Ponda is known as the temple town. Mangeshi, Shantadurga, Mahalasa, Nagesh, Ramnathi and others, concentrated here because Ponda lay outside Portuguese control in the 16th century and became the refuge for deities carried out of Salcete and Bardez.