High medieval · Hindu · India

Pariyanampatta Bhagavathi Temple

Kattukulam, Palakkad district, Kerala · 10.8794°, 76.4031°

Bhagavathi (Devi)Undetermined—

Sacred since

1000 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

dating unrecorded

Undetermined

History & significance

One of the largest Devi temples of the old Valluvanad country, at Kattukulam in Palakkad district, where the goddess is regarded as the protectress of fourteen desams. Its Pooram festival in the Malayalam month of Medam is the temple's principal celebration.

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