Kakkad Mahaganapathy Temple ,Kunnamkulam

Eka dantham Mahakaayam Thapthakanchana Sannibham Lambodaram Visalaksham Vandeham GanaNayakam If someone asks me which is the most worshipped Hindu God I would say Lord Ganapathy. In every Hindu Temple Ganapathy is a Upadevatha.Acording to hindu customs Ganapathy Homam is a must before one indulges into any new venture or before housewarming Ceremony .For everything good to come one has to remember Lord Ganesha first as the Lord is known as Vigheswara whose power is to remove obstacle in your path. More significantly ,which is not known to many people being a new discovery in USA THAT PULLING EAR LOBES INCREASES ABILITY OF BRAIN TO REMEMBER MORE.The punishment children gets from teachers is therefore very signficant today. Why I mention this here is due to the custom of Hindus to perform Thppikkaranam {Ethamidal}in front of Lord Ganapathy helps to enhance Brain power. There are enormous numbers of Ganapathy Kshetrams in India.The most visited Temple in India for Lord Ganesha is Siddhhi Vinayaka Temple at Worli{Prabhavathy} in Mumbai In Thrissur also there a very famous Temple of Ganapathy Temple at Kakkad in Kunnamkulam, This great Temple is historically significant.ThisKshetra has the diety Mahaganapathy besides Lord Siv in the form of Vettkku oru Haran.The speciality here for Lord Ganapathy is that the trunk of the Lord is like the trunk of SiddhhiVinayaka in Mumbai.It is also significant that the Flaghoising called Dhwajaprathishta was performed in the year 2002.In the year 2003 the subdieties{Upadevathas}like Navagraha ,Durga,Nagas and Dampathy rakshak and Bhadrakali were installed.Here Friday oottu{Annadanam}ceremony is also performed on first Friday ofv every month after offering Naivedyam to the m,ain diety.The Auspecious occasion of Vinayaka Chathurthy is celebrted in the month of Chingam. On the first saturday of January every year the most attractive and expert performance of breaking 12008 coconuts in relation to Vettekkaran pattu as an offering to Lord siva is also held here.Why I said expertedness is because 12008 coconuts are broken in 3hours and 30 minutes approximately.This performance is worth showing to children.Besides the 8 days Utsavam is also held on the Thiruvathira star day of the Malayalam month of Meenam.The Utsavam also involves programs of artistic talents like Chakyar Koothu,Ottam Thullal,Dance,Bhajan etc .The Aarattu is held on the final day as in th case of any Temple in Kerala. THESE PERFORMANCES MENTIONED ABOVE INVOLVES LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY . SO ALL DEVOTEES VISITING THE TEMPLE SHOULD GRACEFULLY CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS THIS NOBLE CAUSE OF MAINTAINING A GREAT TEMPLE OF KUNNAMKULAM Sreedharan Mundanat 14 th of January 2018 at Thrissur,Kerala.