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🕉️🕉️🕉️🕉️🕉️Thrikodithanam
Mahavishnu
Temple is
a Hindu
temple dedicated
to Vishnu and
located
in Thrikkodithanam, Kottayam
District, Kerala, South
India.It
is
one
of
the
108 Divyadesamdedicated
to Krishna,
an
avatar
of Vishnu,
who
is
worshipped
as
MahaVishnu.
The
nearest
railway
station
to
the
temple
is
located
in Changanassery,
while
the
nearest
airport
is Cochin
International
Airport.Its
connected
with
the
legend
of Mahabharata.
🕛🕧🕐🕜🕑🕒🕓🕟🕔🕣🕢🕡🕕
The
temple
is
open
from
4:00
am
to
11:00
am
and
5:00
pm
to
8:00
pm
and
is
administered
by Travancore
Devaswom
Board of
the Government
of
Kerala.
The
presiding
deity
in
the
temple
is
Athpudha
Narayanan,
who
is
also
named
as
"Amirutha
Narayanan".
Between
the
pond
and
the
eastern
entrance,
near
a
public
platform
for
arts
and
discourses,
is
a
strange
granite
statue.
It
is
a
man
flat
on
his
back,
held
up
stiff
and
straight
on
a
stone
pillar
about
six
feet
high.
Only
his
waist
rests
on
the
pillar,
rest
of
the
body
is
unsupported.
He
holds
a
shankhu
(conch
shell)
in
his
left
hand
and
wears
the
sacred
thread
indicative
of
the
Brahmin
castes.
At
one
time
the
statue
wore
a
crown
as
well.
The
idol
is
a
stern
reminder
that
bribery,
cheating
and
dishonesty
cannot
be
tolerated.
Anybody
who
goes
after
these
evils
will
be
met
with
the
capital
punishment,
such
as,
that
met
with
the
man
lying
on
the
stone.
Common
folklore
about
this
stone
idol
has
a
story
of
jealousy,
indiscretion
and
swift
retribution.🕉️🕉️🕉️🕉️🕉️🕉️🕉️🕉️
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The
'Deepam'
festival
is
one
of
the
most
important
festivals
celebrated
here
in
the
months
of
November
&
December.