ARANMULA PARTHASARATHI

The unprecedented, irrepressible, insurmountable wrath that surfaced is represented in the archamurthi of this famous shrine. Credit goes to that indomitable Bhismapitamaha for creating conditions and infuriating Krishna to assume this formidable shape and express that emotion; it is this place incidentally associated with the age-old water carnival called Vallomkali held during Onam; it is to this place the idol installed by Savyasachi Arjuna was brought from Nilakkal; it is this deity ready to fight for manavabhudaya readily breaking the promise made; it is here a certain Nambudri offered a great feast to the Lord once coming here by sailing from a far off place and a tradition called Tiruvonachilavu is observed every year over years; it is here a grand feast called Vallasadya is offered to the deity after the Snake Boat race; it is this deity who blesses the barren women with children and in the south there are thousands of beneficiaries exemplifying this truth and it is to this temple children-blessed by the Lord come in their thousands every year in the month of January and boisterously participate in a special festival celebrated, ending with burning of dried leaves and dancing lustily around it.     

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