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High medieval · Hindu · India
Chammanad Devi Temple
Chammanadu, Ezhupunna, Alappuzha district, Kerala · 9.8093°, 76.3109°
BhadrakaliUndeterminedKerala
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A Bhadrakali temple at Kodamthuruth near Ezhupunna, midway between Vyttila and Cherthala, held and run by the eight households of the Ettu Veettil Kartha family. Its ten-day Utsavam falls in the Malayalam month of Kumbham, and two subsidiary shrines to Sastha and Krishna belong to it.