Tirur in Malppuram district is my paternal native place ,Ootil house in thrikkandiyur specifically is our family name .
The place is very famously known for a huge Shiva temple , one of the 108 Sivalayams ,
The temple is in around 3 acres and it has a huge temple tank almost same area in front ,the reason for such a big temple tank is because there was constant fire in the house opposite the temple and astrological invstigations showed the heat from Lord Shivas third eye facing front was... causing it and a huge tank was built to quench the heat is what the legend says .
Thrikandiyur was supposed to be consecrated by none other than Parasurama the father of Kerala itself ,
He did it on three places on the same day ,in the morning at Thiruvannur ,afternoon at Mannur and at dusk in Thrikandiyoor .
Managed by Namboothiri or brahmin families who were plenty in the area it was later given to local king Vettathu rajah ,who later handed it over to the British who ruled Malabar who then handed it to Samoothiripaad of Calicut to look after .
of course now it is under Malabar Devaswom in short under the Government which is a curse for all temples in Kerala .
The temple has special sakti puja lasting 41 days and Kodathiri velakku one day ,
Reason was the association of an ancient court of justice in the temple itself where local cases were heard .
It had an association with the courts for long and still now one day of the Festival is sponsored by advocates in the area and is called Kodathi vilakku or court lamp day .
Vetathu rajah himself was a connouisuer of arts ,it is said he introduced drums or chenda to Kathakali and stopped actors from singing ,he also encouraged traditional arts .
Science ,literature ,mathematics ,astrology were all at thier peak in Thrikandiyoor area for ages .
Dr Charles schultz in 1835 said that Neelakanda somayajpad was from here had written basics of calculus 300 years before Isaac newton discovered it .
The famous malayalam grammerian and poet Thunjathu Ezhutachan also hailed from here and was a regular visitor to the temple along with his mother who worked as a servant in Thatarambathu house ,
he used to listen the vedic teaching in the Brahmana samooham from outside as he wasnt permitted to take part in it by his caste but excelled the students in it ,once he even pointed out a mistake in thier learning .,
Today Tirur has the Thunjathu Ezhutachan Malayalam university in his honour in his memory .
Another strange fact
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