One of 108 Divya Desams; Kerala's most remote Vishnu temple in the Western Ghats. Surrounded by forest; sacred ancestor-rites ghat on the Papanasini stream behind the temple. One of the 108 Divya Desams — temples sung in the Nālāyira Divya Prabandham (the "Four-Thousand Divine Hymns") by the 12 Alvars (6th–9th c. CE). The 108 Divya Desams include 106 earthly sites, plus 2 extra-cosmic realms (Paramapadam = Vaikuntha, and Tirupparkadal = the Milk-Ocean). Each Divya Desam has a Moolavar (s
Wisdom Graph: Divine Associations
MantraOm Namo Nārāyaṇāya
