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Sri Parukkanchery Bhagavathy Temple is situated 9 Km. south east of Palakkad at Pallateri junction and 1 Km south in Para – Pollachi state highway.
Date back to sixteenth century, the legend says that in ancient days the area had jungles. One day a lady farmer went to the jungles to collect fodder. When she was sharpening her sickle on a nearby granite stone, blood oozed out from it. Seeing the rare phenomenon, she immediately reported the matter to all concerned. They conducted a Prasna and it was revealed that the sila which bleeded possessed powers of Goddess Vana-Durga. Accordingly a temple was built for the swaymbhoo vigraha under the direct supervision of karnavars of five Nair taravds viz. Mannil, Vazhenkhat. Mullath, Muttambarath and Anthoor. It is reported that earlier the temple had human, animal and bird sacrifices. Even though it is not prevalent now.
Time of worship and poojas
Except Fridays, The temple is kept open from 5.30 am to 10.30 am and from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm. On Fridays, The temple opening time is 5.30 am to 11.00 am and from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm.
Three poojas are held daily.
- Usha-pooja (8-30 a.m.)
- Uccha-pooja (10 a.m.)
- Athazha-pooja (7 p.m.)
For more details, you can make calls in the phone number 8075164633 in temple opening times.
Structure of the temple
The total extent of temple has an extent of six acres, which constitute the temple complex. The structures thereon are sreekovil, nada pandal sub-shrines, chuttamalam with agra-mandapam, well, compound wall and tank.The rectangular eka-tale sreekovil of nriandhara type and facing north has granite adhishthanam, burnt brick walls and concrete roof covered with tiles. The mouldings of the adhishthanam are padukam, jagati and multi-faceted kumudam. The sopanam has three direct steps with vyali-face at the top of banisters. There is no pranalam but there is an ovu at the ground level. The walls have three ghana-dwaras in addition to the functional door. The rectangular nada-pandal is a detached structure at the front of the sreekovil. The sub-shrine of Lord Siva is at northeast corner of the akatte-balivattam, facing east.The chuttambalam has three entrances, the main one at the north and the other two at the east of which one faces the sub-shrine of Lord Siva. The vazhipad counter is at eastern side. (now new vazhipad counter is being constructed outside the the santum sanatorium after vasthu consultation) The tidappalli is at south east. The sub-shrine at south west corner the chuttambalam faces east. The valiya- balikall is within the agra-mandapam. The well is at north east and outside the chuttambalam. At the north eastern side there is a sub-shrine for Sree Bhairavan facing west, while at the north west corner there are two shrines, one for Sree Nagar and the other for Rakshas.Enclosing all the above structures there is a compound wall. Outside the compound wall there is a sankalpa praishtha of velicchapadu at northwest and a temple tank at the eastern side.
Deities
The swayambhoo sila-linga or Sree Vana-Durga has a height of 12 cm. It may be noted that this idol is not at the centre of the srikovil but slightly on the eastern side. However at the centre there is a sila arcchana vigraham Read more. All other idols are made of sila, Lord Ganapati in sitting pose (30 cm.), Lord Siva in linga form (15 cm.), Sree Bhairavan in standing pose (30 cm.) and Sree Nagar in sitting pose with raised hoods (25 cm.) while for Sree Rakhas and Sree Velicchapad there are sankalpa peedams of (12cm.) and (25 cm.) respectively.
Dress code inside the temple
Inside the temple Churidhar, Pants are allowed but Bermudas, Shirt, Baniyan, T-shirt and Lungi are not allowed.
Temple Administration: Temple is administared through Hereditary Trustees of five families of Pallatheri Desom. Mullath Seethalakshmi Menon (Chairperson), Vazhankhat Padmanabhan (Board Member), Anthoor Sakunthala Amma (Board Member), Muttamparambath Thangam Amma (Board Member) and Mannil Sankunni (Board Member) through Executive officer and staff under Malabar Dewasom Board of Kerala.
Tantri belongs to kattumadam mana, Preveen kattumadam is the present tantri. Prakashan Embrathiri is the present santikkaran.
Oottupura
The temple had a well built spacious oottupura suitable to feed 500+ devotees at a time.
