Pisharikavu Temple

The legend says that before the remaining members of the Ettuveettil family after the conspiracy against Marthanda Varma settled down in Kollam. They were rich diamond merchants. One of family members did severe meditations with sincere devotion to please the goddess Bhadrakaali. One night the goddess Sri Porkali (the family goddess of Ettuveettil pilla family) appeared in his dream and gave him a very special sword named “Nandhakam” and told him to pray her in the form of this sword also advising him to return to his home town. Astonished by the dream, he raised a temple in his home town and revered the Nandakkam sword. The family, by the grace of mother Bhadrakaali, turned out to be very rich and powerful. The community is said to be in existence till and it is also said that some special rights are given to them for conducting festival called “Kaliyattam”.