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Hello Readers, My previous blog was about the Vadakkanthara temple and the area around it. Mentioned about my grandpa and promised to write about Kalpathy in my next blog. So here I am back. Kalpathy is the first village to be declared as a heritage village by Govt of Kerala. Kalpathy is older than 1425 A.D as that was the year in which the famous Kalpathy Viswanatha Swamy temple built. Kalpathy is an Agraharam. The name " Agraharam" originates from the fact that the agraharams have lines of houses on either side of the road and the temple to the village god at the centre, thus resembling a garland around the temple. According to the traditional Hindu practice of architecture and town-planning, an agraharam is held to be two rows of houses running north–south on either side of a road at one end of which would be a temple to Shiva and at the other end, a temple to Vishnu. The story is that some where in 1425 A.D. the Palakkad Brahmins refused to offer ritualistic servic

In my last blog I described about the Hemambika temple, The Common Wealth tile factory, Jainimedu and the Jain temple over there. Now I will take you to one of the most famous temples in Palakkad. As I have mentioned in my first blog, Palakkad is a mix of cultures. The Vadakkanthara temple or the Thirupurakkal Bhagwati temple located at Vadakkanthara is a classic example of cultural harmony. The name vadakkanthara can be split to vadakkan and thara. Vadakkan means northern and thara means locality. But why it is named like this that I still couldn't find. The temple, as I mentioned earlier is one of the most famous temples in Palakkad. The diety of the temple is Karnaki/ Kannagi. The story behind the temple is connected with the Tamil epic Silappathikaram written by Tamil Poet Ilango Adigal some where between 100-300 A.D.  The story is that of a Tamil women named Kannagi and her husband Kovalan who were living at a port town called Puhar. Both of them belongs t