Nenmara - Pudugramam
Overview
Sree Siddhi Vinayaka Temple
Location
Location: Nenmara New Agraharam is located about 31 Kms south from the Palakkad railway station
Address: Puthu Gramam, New, Puthiya Gramam, Nenmara, Kerala 678508
Temple Timings:
5.00AM TO 9.30AM
5.30PM TO 7.30PM
History
Deities
Sree Navaneetha krishna
Sree Varadaraja Swamy Temple
Sree DharmaSastha Temple
Videos
Photo Gallery
Utsavams
Dhanu masam Vaikunta Ekadasi Theru 7 days utsavam
Navaratri festival 9 days
Sri Krishna Jayanthi Gokulashtami with Uriyadi
Sastha preethi
Kanni masam Unchavruthi
Vahanas
Garuda Vahanam
Hamsam
Anjaneyar
Ashwam
Adimakkavu
Other Agraharam Information
Total homes in the Agraharam: 72
Number and % of Brahmin homes: 55 or about 75%
Number and % of homes retaining traditional look: 75%
Does the village have a brahmana samooham: Yes there is a samooham
Does the village temple have a temple car (theru): Yes Big Ratham
When was the last ashtabandhana kumbabhishekam done: May 2011, Utram Thirunal In the month of Medom
Contact Information
N R Mahadevan President -9475868550,devan432003@yahoo.co.in
N Arun Secretary – 8547444245
N M Swetharanyam (Ravi) - 9819581358
N K Venkiteswaran (Venu ) 9447840610
Prof N R Gopala Kishnan 8281924390
Well Known Elders from the Agraharam
Late Sri Ganapathi Deekshithar
Late Sri Vaidyanatha Ganapadikal
Late Sri Seetharama Bhagavathar Ex Prinipal Music College TVM
Prof N R Gopalakrishnan HOD Eng college NSS Palakkad,
Ex State President Kerala Brahmana sabha
Food and Catering
Muthu Saravana Bhavan 1 km
Jyothis Residency 1 km
Hall for functions and Lodging
Bank Accounts for sending Kanikkai, donation or vazhipadu
A/c name:
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Author's Notes
Nemmara - Pudugramam - 100 Agraharams Project
The more I dig about certain agraharams, there more insights I get into them. For example, today's agraharam of Nemmara - New or Nemmara - Pudugramam:
The origin of the name Nemmara is popularly "Nenmaniyude Ara" which means "The Store Room of Rice". The whole place was rich in paddy fields and was the granary of the Chittur taluk. However I read in a different article about the vast number of vedic pundits who migrated from the kingdoms of the east. In Tamil, Vedas are called "marai" (மறை). It seems that learned from all four Vedas lived and flourished in the place and hence the name of the place "நான்மறை" (four+vedas) "naanmarai" became Nemmarai or Nemmara.
When Sri Hari Vadhyar mentioned the name of Kodungallur Kunjikkuttan Thampuran, I remembered the Malayalam poet and prominent Sanskrit scholar of Kerala. "His birth-name was Rama Varma. He is famous for his single-handed, word-by-word translation of the entire Mahabharata within 874 days for which he gained the epithet Kerala Vyasa / Vyasa of Kerala"
In the Kanimangalam episode I had quoted from my references that Cochin Raja had bestowed the lands in and around Nemmara to the "Pattamalis". Sri K V Balakrishnan (Murali) who served the agraharams here tells me that that Cochin Raja had instructed the "pattamalis" to dedicate a portion of the rice to Thrissur, Kodungallur and Tripunithura temples annually after paying due respects to the Bhagavathy here.
Did you know that the survey for a Kollengode – Thrissur railway line was done in 1964-65 and after decades the proposal is yet to see the light of day. If it does happen, the line would reduce travel time variously depending on the destination from Thrissur. It would go from Pollachi - Kollengode - Nemmara - Vadakkencherry - Thrissur and cut travel time from say Thrissur to Kollengode by about an hour. It would dramatically alter the fortunes of many agraharams in the area as they would now be in the circuit that carries pilgrims from Palani up to Thrissur.
Radhe Krishna
Sriram(Hari)
100-Agraharams Project
Rama Bhagavathar Charitable Trust
August 20, 2024