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High medieval · Hindu · India
Panachikkadu Temple
Panachikkad, Kottayam district, Kerala · 9.5379°, 76.5526°
Saraswati (with Vishnu as the original deity)UndeterminedKerala
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
Kerala's best-known Saraswati shrine, at Panachikkad in Kottayam district, where the goddess of learning is worshipped in a spring-fed sanctum; Vishnu, installed before her, remains the temple's main deity.