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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.