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SREE MAHAVISHNU TEMPLE PALLIKURUP
PALLIKURUP MAHAVISHNU TEMPLE IS ONE OF THE FAMOUS TEMPLES SITUATED AT PALLIKURUP IN MANNARKKAD , PLALAKKAD DISTRICT. THIS ANCIENT TEMPLE ATTRACTS A LOT OF DIVOTS LORD MAHAVISHNU IS THE MAIN “ PRATHISHTA” HERE . BESIDES LORD MAHAVISHNU,NARASIMHA MOORTHY FROM THE “VATTA SREE KOVIL” SHEDS BLESSINGS.’SASTHAV’,’GANAPATHI’ ,VETTEKKARAN’AND ‘NAGAS’ ARE THE UPA PRATHISHTA’S HERE .THE LEGEND BEHIND THIS IS THAT ‘SREERAMA’DURING HIS ‘VANAVASA’IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE HAD HIS HOLY ‘SAYANAM’HERE .
THIS IS ONE AMONG THE OLAPPAMANNA DEVASWAM TEMPLES UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION OF HINDU DHARMA INSTITUTIONS.AN ACTIVE COMMITTEE ASSISTS THE DAY TO DAY ADMINISTRATION OF THE TEMPLE.
A HUGE BEAUTIFUL JACK FRUIT TREE, WHICH SPREADS ITS BRANCHES OVER A WIDE AREA NEAR THE PRATHISHTAS OF ‘SASTHAV’ , ‘GANAPATHI’ AND ‘NAGAS’ , COOLS THE MINDS OF DEVOTES. THE AGE OF THIS’ HOLY TREE’ IS NOT YET CALCULATED.
THE RENOWNED AND RARE MURAL PAINTING OF ‘ANANTHASAYANA’ IS THE SPECIALITY OF THIS TEMPLE. IT ATTRACTS MANY INCLUDING STUDENTS STUDYING HISTORY. A BEAUTIFUL LARGE POND IN FRONT OF THE TEMPLE IS AN ATTRACTION TO ALL .
THE WOOD CARVINGS OF ‘DASAVATHARA’ BEAUTI FIES THE ‘MUKHAMANDAPA’. THE TEMPLE WAS BLESSED WITH THE RICH PRESENCE OF FAMOUS TEMPLE ARTISTS. THE FESTIVAL OF THIS TEMPLE STARTS ON ‘PUNARTHAM’ IN THE MONTH OF ‘DHANU’. THE FESTIVAL CEREMONY IS SOLELY FOLLOWED UNDER THE ‘ THANTHRIK’ CULTURE UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF THANTHRI ‘ANDALADI MANA BRAHMASHREE SHANKARAN NAMBOODHIRIPAD’.THE ‘PRATHISHTA DINAM’ IS ON ‘ATHAM’ IN THE MONTH ‘EDAVAM’.ON THIS DAY THER WILL BE ‘UDAYASTHAMANA POOJA’.
THER ARE ANCIENT AND MODERN ‘PATHAYAPURAS’ HERE WITH MANGNIFICNT WOOD CARVINGS.THE ‘MALBAR LAHALA’ DURING TIPPU SULTHAN’S ‘PADAYOTTAM’GRIEVEOUSLY AFFECTED THE ‘PATHAYAPURAS’.ITS PROOFS CAN BE SEEN HERE EVEN TODAY. THIS IS ALSO KNOWN AS ‘CHELAKALAPAM’.
RECORDS SHOW THAT THIS TEMPLE POSSESSED FARM LAND IN THE VARIOUS REGIONS OF MANNARKKAD THALUK AND IT YIELDED ABOUT 16000 ‘PARAS’ SURPLUS TAX(MICHAVARAM). THE GRAT POET OLAPPAMANNA , O.M.C. NAMBOODIRIPAD(THE TRANSLATOR OF RIGVEDA) , O.M. SANKARAN NAMBOODIRIPAD (POSSESSER HONOURABLE POSITION OF RAO BAHADUR) ETC.. ARE THE MAIN CHARIOTEERS OF THIS TEMPLE.
THIS TEMPLE SITUATES AT PALLIKURUP BY THE SIDE OF MANNARKKAD_ KONGAD TIPPU SULTHAN ROAD AND IT IS 4 KM AWAY FROM MANNARKKAD TOWN.