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Cheranalloor, Kalady, Ernakulam district, Kerala · 10.1783°, 76.4717°
One of the 108 Shiva temples of Kerala and an important shrine of the former Cochin Kingdom, with a circular sanctum and a square namaskara mandapam. Before the agrarian reforms it drew an annual income of roughly 24 tons of paddy from extensive landholdings.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
The sage Parashurama is said to have installed the Shiva image here in the Treta Yuga.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Undetermined
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