Sree poornathresiya temple

I consider myself lucky to live just  200 meters from an ancient temple
Sree Poornathrayeesa .

Thura means a  port on the banks of river Poorna with a Thiru which is a respectful connotation so its Thiru..Poorni...Thura later becoming Thripunithura .

It also comes from poorna thrayee which is lord of 3 vedas .

The place was an ancient land of vedic learning called veda poorni where Arjuna comes with an idol in his poorni or bag of arrows which he places in this area and by pun it is pooni thura or open poorni as thura means open in malayalam .

Arjuna was given the idol of lord Vishnu as Santhana Gopala or giver of children for childless
A form of Vishnu not seen usually here hes sitting on the celestial serpent Adiseshah instead of lying down in ananthasayanam
He sits cross legged one leg folded one hanging down with four hands one with Chakra or swivelling diskette a weapon one with Sanghu or conch one with lotus and other resting on Seshan the serpent seat .

Once a brahmin kept losing his children one by one they kept dying as children and in those days people can blame thier king for thier fate unlike these days where the peoples fate is decided by the bloody politicians ..
So brahmin keeps cursing the king for every childs death
When his 8 th child dies Arjuna happened to be with the king, he promises the brahmin that he will protect the child born from death but that child too dies though Arjuna tries to save child he fails .

The brahmin ridicules Arjuna for his great words and dejected Arjuna tries to jump into a fire to end his life , but Krishna stops him as he loves Arjuna ,tells him to get all children if he can find out
Krishna plays a celestial game
Arjuna travels to several world paathaalam swarga naraga indra etc but in vain finally krishna helps him in doing so during this time krishna shows Arjuna the maha Vishnu form and Arjuna trembles with fear and piety
Krishna gives an idol of santhana gopala to Arjuna and tells him to consecrate it in a suitable spot
Arjuna asks Vinayaka to help him and he finds out Poorna river bank .
Vinayaka falls in love with the place and occupies it himself
Arjuna pushes him to west corner and keeps main idol in sanctum sanctorum
Initially the idol is in moolastaanam a temple in west of present one Poonithura Krishna temple
Later its moved into puthan palace temple by Cochin royal family and still later to present location .
Poirnathrayeesan is elder brother of Chotanikara amma whose temple is 10 km away .
One of most important festivals is Vritscikotsavam and falls in nov dec its for 8 days and on 4th day a very important ritual happens its Thriketta ir offering by devotees into a golden pot
Huge lines stand to do that ..same day elephant is caprisoned in gold
In 2016 the Cochin Dewaswom which manages the temple wanted to melt old caprison and make new one
Dewaswoms are an anamoly for hindu temples
Filled with politicians who loot it they do anything which benifits them
The royal family pleads to dewaswo

m not to melt gold as new one cannot be made before vritscikotsavam but its done
That year there was no gold caprison and it hurt so many tks to the dewaswom .
Such is the history of this great temple