SREECHEMATTIYA BHAGAVATHY TEMPLE, KALIINGAL,PALAKKAD-FORWARD
Dear friends The interesting information about the above temple is by reading from a website. Ihave not visited the temple. Gopalakrishnan Dated28-5-2022 Sree ChemattiyaBhagavathy Temple issituated at Kallingal,a tranquil villageoff Palakkad- chittur Road, about 5 kms from Palakkad Town. This is an ancienttemple dedicated to GoddessDurga. Consecration at this temple has a legend associated with SageParasurama, who had found the divine presence of Goddess at the lusciousforests here. The name"Chemattiya Kavu" was drawn from "Parasurama ChavittiyaKavu" or the forest stepped in by Sri Parasurama. Legend of the temple: Sage Parasurama, after finishing the consecration of the 108durga Temples, happened to come to a beautiful forest on the banks of Shokanashini river.Inside this forest, he had the divine darshan of Goddess as the "Vana durga".Astounded by the beauty of the powerful Goddess, sage Parasurama startedsinging praises of Devi and worshipped Her with poojas and offerings. Devi waspleased with his devotion. Upon turning back, Parasuma encountered a piousBrahmin, called Makaramattathu Nambothiri who had followed him. Withinstructions of building a Durga temple at that place, Parasurama donated thatforest land to the Brahmin. Then Parasurama gave his sacred "Parasu or Mazhu" to theMakaramattathu Namboothiri and disappeared through a big pond. Thepious Brahmin, shocked with surprise and fear, threw the sacred weapon of Parasurama to the same pondand went away. This pond can be seen now also at the west side ofthe present temple, and it seems to have a well at the middle which is closedwith a big boulder. Itis believed that having the darshan of devi after a dip in this divine pond,will cure one of his fears and diseases. The Brahmin family moved away from that place beforebeginning the consecration of the temple. and the place remained to be a thickforest for long. Once atribal man, called Kori, came to this forest for cutting bamboo trees. while hewas sharpening his knife on a stone, the stone began to bleed profusely.He ran away from there with fear, and informed people about the incident. Thenthe elder of the Makaramattathu family, who owned the forest land was summonedand "AshtamangalyaPrasna"was done And Goddess Durga's presence was established.Thus the present Chemattiya Bhagavathy Temple was built at that place, afterclearing the forest land. Significance of the Idol: The Devi idol here is Vanadurga form, having four hands and vaishnava bhava .Parashuram’sworship and poojas are believed to have given her the vaishanava shakthi. The Devi has axe on her right hand, shanghu on her left hand and thehands below are in the blessing mode . The idol is facing East. Mondays andThursdays are the important days in this temple unlike Tuesdays and Fridays inother Devi temples. It is believed that the Devi idol isgrowing gradually. Hence the idol is not fixed on seat andis immersed onto an opening in the sree moolasthana. The Devi idol isbelieved to have an immense energy, hence no other upadevatha idols are in themain temple compound.The doors of the main temple are made of copper plates. Above the entrance doorthere are two figurines holding bow and arrow carved in wood. The water usedfor poojas is taken from the well situated inside the temple itself. Offerings: Trimadhuram made with double sweetness, raktha pushpanjali, trikalapooja are some of the main poojas done here.Archana,chorron,niramala,panappayasam,vivahametc are also done in this temple. Chemmalakkori: The kori (harijan) who sharpened his tool on Devi’s idol, gotill after seeing the blood and died after twenty one days. He was erected and worshippedon the north east side, outside the temple. As he came from thesouthern hill side to cut the bamboos, he is called chemmalakkori. There are nopoojaris to do the pooja for kori. People themselves do the pooja for removingtheir worries and other difficulties of life. ‘Iravuri” neivedyam is the mainoffering for the kori. People pray to kori to get rid of bad omens and to takerevenge on their enemies. Peoplebelieve that, if they satisfy chemmalakkori, Devi would bless them. Kaalabhairavan: Kaalabhairava is placed on the south east of the temple. Thepoojas done for the chemmalakkori are done for bhairava also. People do the poojas directlywhich is done mainly for the welfare of pet animals. Komaram: Velichappadu is considered as the incarnation of Devi. Thelast velichappadu of this temple was Thiruvalathur Madhavan Nair after which,till now, there are no komarams for the temple. Velichappadu is believed togive the orders of Devi directly to the people and so the people in this areaare hoping to get a komaram soon. The komaram starts from the Puthoor house inkodumbu. Pungala pushkaran:In the south-east corner of thetemple, there is a Sasthatemple, wherein Sreesastha is worshippedwith his consorts Poorna and pushkala. Sarpa vigrahangal: Near to the Sastha temples, the Sarpa idols are worshippedand in the Aayilyam star of Kanni month special sarpa poojas are performed. Shankara maman: He was a pious man who lived near the premises of the templeand was an extreme devotee of Devi. He had predicted many things which came out to be true. He isbelieved to have passed away inside the temple itself while meditating, so heis supposed to have been erected on stone under the banyan tree on the northside of the temple. People believe that if they tie a raksha afterpraying him, they will get rid of all their troubles and difficulties. Festivals:Vela Festival: The Vela Festival is celebrated on the first Thursday of theMalayalam month Meenam every year. TheVela Festival which had not been observed for a long time, had been restartedfrom 1996 and it is getting bigger and prominent with each year. On the Veladay caparisoned elephant procession with percussion Panchavadya is a treat tothe eyes. On that day cultural festivals and temple art forms are performed atthe temple premises. There is a special "vedikkettu"on Vela Day. The most importantoffering to Devi, Kathina Vedi Vazhipadu is done on Vela Day. Prathishta Dinam: On the Makayiram Day of Month Medam, the day of consecrationof the idol is observed as Prathishta Dinam. Special Poojas and KathinaVazhipadu is done on this day. Tuesday, 1 November 2016 http://chemattiyabhagavathytemple.in/ By Team Devaayanam at November 01, 2016 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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