santhanagopalakrishnan temple

Thursday, 1 January 2009

kerala temple pallassana santhan gopalakrishnan
The village pallassana is famous for its paddy fields.devi temple,Ayyappa temple and santhana gopalakrishna temple in the west pallassana.once a village of brahmins now reduced to small hamlet of brahmins. few brahmins remain there in the village as others have sold their houses to non brahmins such as ezhavas,chetties and muslims.the santhana gopalakrishna temple is situated in this village on the eastern side of the village facing east.the diety made of stone is in fact a replica of mahavishnu with four hands.having conchm chakra and abhaya and varadha hasthas.the temple is quite old the old villagers estimaes it to be more than 800 years.in the month of markazhi the villagers celebrate vaikuntha eakadashi festvelthis year the eakadashi falls on 7th january 2008.pavai koothu the famous puppetery show is started in pallassana and the songs for this folk art was composed by vaitha pattar and earath singan of mannadiar teruvu(tara)the diety is famous for granting the boon of children to childless couple.every month if you perform pooja and offer milk keer to the diety on thiruvonam day you will be blessed with a child.bavarathri is being celebrated by the devottes and is known as navarathri vilakku.during the nine days the kalababhishekam is done by the devoteesfrom the nearby villages.close to the village there is a small hill known as vaamalai on top of which there is a shrine of ayyappa with a small mandapam.every saturday a priest from nearby kavu climbs the hill and perform pooja.on deepavali amavasya day people from nearby villages climb and offer avil nixes with gool,and tendercoconut water and plantian fruit and coconut.there is a small shrine for mondiyan a village kaval deivam and the local chettiyars offer the bali normally cocks/hen to please the god who guards the cattle and keeps the diseases away from the cattle.it is a nice picnic place for hill trotters.the hill doesnt have steps and one has to climp the steep mountan using hands at times like a spider manbetween the two brahmin villages is situated the famous meenkulathi bhagwathi kavu.thanks to bharanidharan of ananda vikatan the small village dieties fame has reached all over india and places like usa ,uk and gulf.earlier only few brahmins and nairs from the bearby villages used to visit the temple and offer vaal panam known as padippanam.due to publicity and ayyappa bhakthas rush to the temple the nerby villagers are having problenm in having darshan.on sunday,tuesday,and friday it is seen people standing in q for 6 to 8 hours for darshan.the temple tank is having lots of fishes and our kounder brothers from coimbatore,and udumalai started feeding fised with pori as a result the small pori business has become a big one now.there are two vegeteran hotels one hotel suma a nice vegeteran one managed by thangam and her husband and the other hotel umashankar both vegeterian hotels.one can get tourist cars from jayasree travels managed by the owner of the hotel umashanakar.he can be contacted at the phone no04923268638gopalakan
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Friday, 19 December 2008

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