Thirukodithanam Divyadesam Amirdha Narayanan Temple is located 05 KM from Changananchery near Kottayam, which is one among the 3 Kadigai Kshetrams. The remaining two are Thirukadigai worshipped familiarly as Sholinghur and Thirukandam worshipped as Kadinagar and Devaprayaga. The Temple was built by Sahadeva, the youngest brother of the Pancha Pandavas where Moolavar is blessing as Amirdha Narayanan in His Standing Posture Facing East. Thayar is Blessing as Karpagavalli Thayar

Thirukodithanam Divyadesam - Amirtha Narayanan Temple - Pancha Pandava Kshetrams Built By Sahadevan - The History

It is strongly believed that the Devotees who worship Arputha Narayanan here and stay just for a Kadigai – 24 Minutes will get rid of all their sins and attain Moksham. The main Sanctum Sanctorum is a Circular Shaped one – a typical kerala style temple, where there is a shrine for Lord Narasimhar also. Hence there are 2 Flag Posts – Dwajasthambams – here for both of the Deities. On southern side of the temple premise, Devotees can also worship Lord Ganesha and Lord Dhakshina Murthy in their separate shrines with no doors and just the holes on a wooden plank so that to have the darshan. Sahadevan, the youngest of Pancha Pandavas came here after the Gurukshetra War to worship the Almighty. He wanted to install an Idol of Lord Maha Vishnu here and searched for a stone. He didn’t get any stones around the place and at last he decided to immolate himself as a stone for the Idol. To acknowledge the adherent devotee, to a big surprise, at last an Idol of Arputha Narayanan appeared in front of him. Hence the Moolavar is being worshipped as “Arputha Narayanan”. Arputham in Tamil means Miracle. The temple is also called as “Sahadevan Kshetram”.

The Power of Ekadasi Vrdha – Once a King named Rukmangathan from solar Dynasty ruled this place, who was an adherent devotee of Lord Maha Vishnu. He used to observe Ekadasi Vradha dedicatedly. He had an Excluisve Flower Garden where he plant very rare flowers for his poojas to Lord Maha Vishnu. By knowing this Indran sent some devas to steal the flowers. Rukmanganathan came to know that the flowers were missing every day. One Day the security of the Garden caught the Devas while they were stealing the flowers and brought them to the King. The King enquired and came to that they were Devas and as instructed by Indran only they had been stealing the flowers. Instead of getting angry, the King became happy and told the Devas that he was ready to send the flowers to Indran every day. But as Devas were touched by the Humans, they lost all their powers and unable to go back to Devalogam. King requested Paranthaman and he was asked to give the benefit of Ekadasi Vradha to Devas to get back their powers here in the temple. These incidents were happened within a period of Kadigai – 24 Minutes. Hence the temple is being worshipped as “Thirukadithanam”. Temple Vimanam is Punyakoti Vimanam and the temple Pushkarni is being worshipped as Bhoomi Theertham.