Kollengode - Kizhakke Gramam

Overview

Sree Visalakshi Sametha Sree Viswanatha 

Sree Meenakshi Sundareswara Swamy

The temple has a dual prathista in a single platform which is unique

Location

Location: The Kollengode Pudugramam is located about 27 Kms from the Palakkad railway station and off the Pollachi Vadakkanchery road and adjacent to the Gayathri river. Near Ootara Railway Station and 1.7 kms from Kollengode Railway station

Address: JM9V+XV2, Kollengode, Kerala 678506

Temple Timings: 

5.30AM TO 9.30AM

5.30PM TO 7.30PM


History

"Datable to the sixteenth century, the legend says that the old temple was formerly known as Sree Meenakshi-Sundareswarar temple. Later when a Siva-linga was brought from Kasi (Varanasi) an L-shaped granite structure of height of 6.45 m, was built and over it two sreekovils of equal size were built (west and south entrances) with granite stones and copper sheet covered roof."



A blog on the temple mentions that the earliest residents were migrants from Kadambakudi, Ganapathy Agraharam, Mannargudi and Mayiladuthurai villages in Thanjavur Dist,Tamilnadu. They migrated from Thanjavur at the time of Islamic invasion due to persecution and unrest.

Deities

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Utsavams

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Rishabham

Adimakkavu

Sree Puratill Bagavathy Temple , Payyalore ,Kollengode

Other Agraharam Information

Contact Information

Sri G. Rajan Managing Trustee 9488183338

Sri P.S Guruvayurappan Co Trustee 9995489707

Sri K.K Balasubramanain “ “ 7025370763

Sri P.R Chidambareswaran “ “ 9349578788

Well Known Elders from the Agraharam

Food and Catering

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Hall for functions and Lodging

Near by places: Sumangali Lodge and Kousthubam

Bank Accounts for sending Kanikkai, donation or vazhipadu

PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK ,KOLLENGODE

A/c NO: 4296000100005935

IFSC: PUNB0429600

In favour of 

“Grama Jana Samooham, Pudugramam."


Author's Notes

Kollengode - Kizhakke gramam - 100 Agraharams Project

The East Gramam of Kollengode is about 27 kilometers south of the Palakkad Rail Junction and about 2 kilometers from the Kollengode railway station. It is just off the Pollachi highway at Kollengode town.

"As our esteemed historian KV Krishna Iyer explains, Brahmins perhaps came to this region in search of the soma plant for their sacrifices and finding it, settled down there in the hoary past. Soon their sanketam established authority over all the temples between Vadakancheri and the Anamalai hills. The venganad nampiti (a degraded version of nambudiri) was responsible in  the pre cherman perumal days for the supply of Darba, Sruva and camata sticks of sacrifices in the Cheranaad.

The Gayatri / Malampuzha / Iksumati River flowed through the Palakkad region, after a pass was hived through the ghats by Parasurama's axe. Kasyapa the saint was the first occupant of Venganad, following which we stumble across the story of the king Dharmavartama who gets cured of leprosy at the temple spring in Kollengode, begets a child with his wife, but loses the child Hemanga in the fast flowing Iksumati River. Hemanga was picked up by some blacksmiths and brought up, thus earning the place name Ayaskarapura (place on the opposite bank) or Kollengode (home of the blacksmiths). As the story goes, he grew up, found an opportunity to save the wounded Parasurama, who in gratitude gifted him with the five desams covering five desams, namely Kollengode, Vattakad, Vadavannur, Elavancheri and Payyanur. There he lived to rule over the desams, after building the first kovilakom of Venganad." - so writes Sri Maddy in Historic Alleys under Malabar's history

What intrigues me is Sri Viswanathan's observation regarding the alienation of lands that belong to the temple or agraharam. I hope that the legal professionals in each village, or other villages where available, will take up this issue for the benefit of the gramam and the community as a whole, and work to reclaim possession of these assets.

Radhe Krishna

Sriram(Hari)

100-Agraharams Project

Rama Bhagavathar Charitable Trust

August 19, 2024