KADALAYI SREE KRISHNA TEMPLE KERALA

KADALAYI SREE KRISHNA TEMPLE KERALA

There is an interesting myth connected with the origin of the temple. It is believed that the idol consecrated here is the very idol worshiped by Sathyabhama, the consort of Lord Krishna at Dwaraka in Dwapara Yuga millenniums ago. One day it happened that she failed to notice her husband standing near her as she was immersed in performing pooja to the idol. The Lord got furious. He kicked the idol off the pedestal. It flew and fell in the nearby sea. Its right hand was broken. Time and Tide took the idol to the Kannur sea belt. A fisherman happened to net it. It being a precious catch, he presented it to King Valabhan, the Kolathiri King ruling over the area more than thousand years ago. The king had constructed a temple Kadalayi, a village about 6Kms north of Kannur and was on the lookout for an idol to be consecrated there. The astrologers understood the sanctity of the idol and confirmed that the idol, though its hand was broken and thus deformed, was worthy of consecration. The idol was thus consecrated at Kadalayi. When the temple was ruined due to the devastating onslaught of time a new temple was built at Chirakkal one eighty years ago and the old idol re-consecrated. The temple, though situated at Chirakkal, came to be called by its old name Kadalayi.

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