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Lord Manikandhan
The king who ruled the places Madura, Ramanadhapuram and
Thirunalveli was assassinated by Thirumalai Naykkar, the minister of
Vijayanagar. Once some parts of Travancore is ruled by the King of Pandya.
They used Tamil as their ruling language. Before 800 years ,a royal family named Chembazhangattu Kovilakam was ruling Pandalam.
Rajasekhara was one of the famous king who ruled Pandalam. He was brilliant
and loyal to people. People are highly satisfied under his ruling. But hi hadn't any
child. The king and the people are worried about that. Because they didn't have a Price whom they
wanted to rule them after the death of the King. Somebody advise him to pray Lord
Siva. He had done the same for the sake.
At this time, Mahishasura the son of Rambhasura performed a sustained penance and pleased Lord
Brahma. The boon wanted by him was that he hadn't killed by anyone from Earth. The
boon was granted. He unleashed terror in the earth. He became more and more cruel
everyday. So gods decided to take a proper Acton. They appealed Lord Chandika to find an end of
the cruelty made by Mahishasura. Lord Chandika accepted their request and she killed
Mahishasura. Rambhan had a brother named Karambhan and he had a daughter named
Mahishi. The killing of Mahishasura by Lord Chandika increased the anger of
Mahishi. She underwent hard penance and obtained boons from Brahma. As per the boons
obtained, Mahishi could be only killed by
the son born to Hari (Lord Vishnu) and Haran (Lord Siva). She thought that this is an impossible
prospect. This made her more proud and cruel. She unleashed the terror in three
worlds. Mahishi stopped all the scared rituals. The Mother Earth was suffered by the
crimes. She appealed to the Lords for saving her from the cruelty of
Mahishi. They promised proper action.
After this incident, "Palazhimadhana" was happened. Both Gods and Asuras are took part in this
job. This was demanded for obtaining Amrith to cure the Gods of aging. When
Amrith was separated from Sea of Milk, the Asuras took it. Lord Vishnu was ready to recover it from
them. The Lord himself transformed into a beautiful women named Mohini.
Asuras already began to fight
on each other. Mohini appeared in front of Asuras. They were shocked by her
divine beauty. They were suddenly agreed to her demand for dividing
Amrith. They were shut their eyes and sat down on the floor. Mohini took the Amrith and escaped from
there. Mohini had given this to Gods.
By hearing this, Lord Siva expressed his wish for seeing Mohini.
Lord Vishnu was suddenly turns to Mohini. Lord Siva was stunned by her
beauty. Their union resulted the birth of a child (Hariharasutha).
Suddenly Mohini disappeared. Lord Siva put an ornament (Manimala) on the neck of the
child. Mhadeva placed him on the river of Pampa. At the same time the king of
Panthalam, reach the place for hunting. He was attracted by the voice of a child.
He searched the place for finding the child. He was in a dilemma. Suddenly
a Saint was appeared in front of the King and said him to took that child with
him. He named him as Manikandha because of the ornament that was given by Lord
Siva. He continued that after 12 years he could knew the origin of the
child. The king was delighted and took the child with him. Queen too loved the child.
Mankandha's arrival gave many good signs for the royal house.
After some years, the Queen had given birth of another child. But both the king and queen consider Manikandha as their
follower. Manikandha had all noble qualities. He mastered all knowledge. His
teacher already decided that he was a divine child. So he asked Mankandha's help at the completion of his
studies. The teacher had a child who was duff and dump. The teacher requested him to take away the
illness. Manikandha called that child and touched his head. Suddenly
he was able to talk. Manikandha told his teacher to keep this as a
secret. He was interested in state's affairs. When a Islam named Vaver created troubles in some parts of
Pandalam, Manikandha fight against him and defeated him. At the same time he won his friendship
too. There after Vaver became the close friend of Manikandha.
Minster of Pandalam is jealousy over Manikandha. He thought that if the king didn't get the
child, he would be the next king. Day after day his anger towards Manikandha increased.
He decided to harm the prince. So he started to tell concocted stories to
Queen. He was succeed in his job. One day queen was pretending that she had severe
headache. None of the court's physician could cure. The scandalmongers told that that would only be cured by the milk of
leopard. King sent some people for fetching milk. But none of them did not win. King
was worried. At that time
Manikandha came to him and said that he would go to forest. But the king would not
agree. But the prince would stand on his decision. At last king would allow him to go to the forest.
Actually fetching leopard's milk was just an excuse. Manikandha was incited by the Gods that
it was the time for him to kill Mahishi. As soon as Manikandha knew the cruelty of
Mahishi. At this time Mahishi conquered the heaven. Manikandha entered in to the heaven and started fight against Mahishi.
At the end of the fight Manikandha pulled down her in to Earth and killed
her. Her body fell at the bank of river Azhutha.Lord Siva and Lord Vishunu were watching the battle at a place later known as
Kalaketti.
This name was given to the place because Lord Siva tied his ox (Kala)
in a tree. The soul of Mahishi was released. She fell in love with her
survivor. But Manikandha had decided to be a Brahmachari. To cosole her he
said," Soon I will be settled at one shrine. I will give you a place near
me. If no first timer visits me during a whole year, I will accept you".
Indra turns into the form of a she leopard and other Gods are turns into it's
children. They appeared in front of Manikandha. He mounted the she leopard's back and returned
Palace. Other leopards and their children
followed Manikandha. When he reached the country, people ran away with
fear. At that time King said that queen's diseases could be cured, when
Manikandha went to the forest. King said him to leave off leopards in to the forest.
Manikandhan told that he wanted to leave the place. The king was worrying
a lot for hearing this news. Manikandha continued that he would not leave
them. He told," Make me a shrine for me close to Shabari's Ashram.
Let the construction party to search for this arrow of mine.
The exact place will be shown by this arrow". Thus the construction of famous temple was
begun. Manikandha had promised few others to be honored with him. They
are Ganapathi, Najaraja, Vavar, Kadutha and Mahishi who later known as Malikapurathamma.
Even now Malikapurathamma is waiting for Manikandha's arrival. The statue of Manikandha was placed by Saint Parasurama.
After the completion of the temple the number of visitors increased every year.
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