This is a Palakkad village in the banks of Soka Nasini River(Thekke Puzha). The land of this village belonged to the Pathayikkara Namboodiris in the olden age.It is told that these Nambbodiris donated the entire land to iyers and left the place.There is only one street with houses on both sides of the street.In the olden times there were about 150 brahmin houses in this village.Now there are only about 80 houses.There are three main temples that of Siva, Kroshna and Ganapathi.There is also a temple of Sastha along with his consort, PoornaPushkalamba. The siva Parathishta was done by the Tamil Iyers who settled here but the BhagawatiPrathishta in this temple is of the Namboodiris.
Vinayaka Chaturthi is celebrated in the Ganesha Temple with
an Ezunnellathu.In the month of Thula, there is Annabishekam
in the siva temple.In the month of Makara Sastha Preethi is
celebrated in a grand scale in this village.During Ashtami
Rohini there is festival in the Krishna temple in which there
is Uriyadi.
In the olden times some of the villagers adopted to Sanyasa
and their samadhis are in the river bank.There were many musicians
and Vedic Pundits belonging to the village like Krishna Vadhyar,
Mathru Jada Vallabhar, Viswanatha Bhagavathar, Vaidyanatha
Vadhyar,Chellappa Deekshidar, Yagnendra Deekshidar etc.