The plant is used in Poosai (Tamil) to represent a form of the Tamil Goddess Kottravai. In Eastern India, the plant is used as one of the nine components of navapatrika along with young plantain or banana plant, taro leaves, barley (jayanti), wood apple (bilva), pomegranate (darimba), asoka, manaka or manakochu, and rice paddy. The Navaptrika worship is an important part of Durga festival rituals.<ref name="uses"/>
==Common name==
* '''English''' - Turmeric
* '''Kannada''' - ಅರಿಶಿನ
* '''Hindi''' - Haldi
== References ==