Elappully Agraharam - 100 Agraharams Project

Elappully Agraharam - 100 Agraharams Project The migration of the Brahmins from Tamilnadu to Palakkad and other places during the 1300's coincided with the Delhi Sultante's conquest of Dwarasamudra and their further foray into the Pandya Kingdom. The chaos that ensued pushed waves of Brahmin migrants via Palakkad pass into various settlements. It could also be that better fortunes were to be made in this land west of the Ghats. My home is just behind Chokkanathapuram and I read that the folks migrating from Madurai settled there and thus the name. Vaiteeswaran Koil folks established Vaidyanathapuram etc. Elappully folks came from Ganapathy Agraharam, I have spent time sitting on the banks of Cauvery and admiring the lush fields of the Thanjavur district. It seems there were atleast a hundred homes in the agraharam and after a devastating fire and also after the Land reforms that of 1970, went down to around 35 homes which survive today. I like simple agrahrams like Elappully with dead ends terminating at the temple, so that the scourge of traffic and thoroughfare do not trouble the residents. The primary deity in the temple Navaneetha Krishnan. Let me reproduce here the details about the agrahram in the KeralaIyers site: "Elappully is home to two temples: the main temple dedicated to Navaneetha Krishnan and another significant temple dedicated to Bala Parameshwari, established by Koti Sastrigal. Notable individuals from the village include the esteemed Vedic scholar Sri E. P. Subrahmanya Iyer, who translated Soundarya Lahari into Malayalam, another renowned Vedic scholar Sri Ramakrishna Sastrigal, industrialist Sri E. K. Narayana Iyer, educational expert N. Subrahmanyam who collaborated with Annie Besant, and the Mridanga maestros Sri E.M. Panchapakesan and Elapully Krishna Iyer, as well as Ghatam maestro Sri E. N. Balakrishnan. The village celebrates Vaikunta Ekadasi with a grand five-day festival, culminating in Ratholsavam on the Ekadasi day." Radhe Krishna Sriram(Hari) 100-Agraharams Project Rama Bhagavathar Charitable Trust July 3, 2024