TRIPRAYAR - CLOSING OF WESTERN GATE

There is one more version recounting the installating of Sridevi and Bhudevi in the Srikoil, and it is attributed to Bilwamangalathu Swamiyar. During his worship on his visit to the temple, he found to his ecstatic joy, Sridevi and Bhudevi entering through the western door and worshipping the archamurthi. To set right the fault of installation of the archamurthi, he made arrangements for the installation of the Goddesses on either side and also closing of western gate with a view to making the goddesses remain confined to the Srikoil alone. Hence the closure of western gate then, and they are not flung open since then. How strange is the tradition! What a devotion to the divinities? Are not they strange? As it is strange, so is the tradition.

Location : The temple lies in Triprayar, accessible by four wheelers from Trissur, Kerala.

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