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Ootukulangara Bhagavathy Temple, Peruvemba

Peruvemba, Palakkad district, Kerala · 10.7066°, 76.6917°

Ootukulangara Bhagavathy, with Ganapathy and AyyappanUndetermined
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined

History & significance

A Bhagavathy temple at Peruvemba in Palakkad district whose sanctum is left roofless, the idol standing under an asoka tree that is said never to have grown. Its main festival, Patham Padiyam, closes 41 days of lamp-lighting in the month of Vrischikam.

Sthala katha — the traditional account

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.

A farm worker is said to have turned up a metal image while ploughing a paddy field; an astrologer called in by the landlord judged it a self-manifested form of Bhagavathy, and the temple was raised on the spot.

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Sources

coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-28 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Undetermined