Killikkurussimangalam (also known as Lakkidi) is a village around 8 km from nearby town

Ottappalam Ottapalam, (also spelled Ottappalam) is a town, taluk and municipality in the Palakkad District, Kerala, India. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ottapalam taluk. Ottapalam is located about 36 km from district headquarters Palakkad ...

in Palakkad district of

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. The river

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( Bharatapuzha) flows through the southern border of Lakkidi.

Etymology

The village got its name from the famous Lord

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- Sri Killikkurussi Mahadeva Kshetram situated in the village. The temple is very old and legends say it has been founded by the sage ''Sree Suka Brahma Hrishi''.

Kunchan Nambiar's birthplace

The village is the birthplace of famous

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satire poet and founder of the

Ottamthullal Ottan Thullal (or ''Ottamthullal'', Malayalam: ഓട്ടൻ തുള്ളൽ) is a recite-and-dance art-form of Kerala, India. It was introduced in the eighteenth century by Kunchan Nambiar, one of the Prachina Kavithrayam (three famous Mal ...

art form,

Kunchan Nambiar Kunchan Nambiar was a prominent Malayalam poet of the 18th century (1705-1770). Apart from being a prolific poet, Nambiar is also famous as the originator of the dance art form of Thullal, most of his works were written for use in Thullal perf ...

(Rama panivada). The house where Kunchan Nambiar was born, Kalakkathu Bhavanam, is now a cultural centre, undertaken by Department of Culture of

State Government. There is also a library situated there in memory of Kunchan Nambiar called ''Kunchan Smaraka Vayanasala'' - Kunchan Memorial Library.

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and

Chakyar koothu Chakyar Koothu (pronounced ) is a performance art from Kerala, India. It is primarily a type of highly refined monologue where the performer narrates episodes from Hindu epics (such as the '' Ramayana'' and the '' Mahabharata'') and stories f ...

artist and noted

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scholar Nātyāchārya Vidūshakaratnam

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Guru

Mani Madhava Chakyar Guru Mani Madhava Chakyar ( IAST: ''Māṇi Mādhava Cākyār'') (15 February 1899 – 14 January 1990) was a celebrated master performance artist and Sanskrit scholar from Kerala, India, considered to be the greatest Chakyar Koothu and Koo ...

, who was the authority of ''Abhinaya'' (acting) was also lived there. His home is near to the Killikkurussi Mahadeva temple. It is also the hometown of one of Chakyar's prominent disciples, Guru Kelu Nair.

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scholar Koppattu Achutha Pothuval also lived near the temple. Temple pond kerala

Education

Sree Sankara Oriental High School, previously known as ''Balakollasini Samskritha Pathasala'', is the oldest high school in this area, and stays for the education of the poor. It was started by the great Sanskrit scholar and teacher ''Panditaratnam'' Pazhedathu Sankaran Nampoothiripad. This is one of the six schools in Kerala where Sanskrit is the Major Language. There is a sacred temple-

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(''Ambalakkulam'') near to Sri Killikkurussi Mahadeva Temple, where pilgrims and visitors bathe. Pin code of the village is 679 301.

Image gallery

Image:Mani damodara Chakyar-mattavilasa.jpg, The performance of devotional koothu- Mathavilasam at Killikkurussi Mahadeva Kshetram by Mani Damodara Chakyar. Image:Mani Madhava Chakyar.jpg, Padma Shri

- Legendary

Artist. Image:temple_pond_kerala.jpg, Pond associated with the Killikkurussi Mahadeva temple.

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