Kaampithaan Mandapam

The tribal man went missing after this incident and people were very sad as they could hear the words of the goddess through him. One day he appeared in front of Pandarathil and asked him not to worry as they will get a new oracle. After a few days, a man with a long beard and hair appeared in that village. He sat beneath a huge tree near the temple. Suddenly he jumped from there and started uttering something histrionic. When people gathered there he too went inside the forest and climbed on the Kuda Para and then came out riding on a tiger. People approved him as the new oracle through whom the goddess speaks and started calling him kambithan.
During this Kambithan’s period, the King of Madurai offered to present Golden Crown to the idol if the Kambithan comes directly there. Although he decided it he did not mention it to anybody. One fine morning the Kambithan started shivering and he told the devotees that he had to leave the village as some devotees offered something. On that night just before going to sleep, the King of Madurai saw the Kambithan in his bedroom. Kambithan asked the King to give whatever he had offered.
King handed over a crown of sliver to him. This made Kambithan angry. He shouted that either the King should give what he promised or should be ready to face the consequences. Fearing the wrath of Goddess, the king handed over the golden crown which is still at the temple.

After the death of this Kambithan, the temple authorities deposited the sword used by the Kambithan at a deep place in the nearby river. After quite some time another person came there and repeated whatever the earlier Kambithan did and dived into the river and came out with the sword. He became the next Kambithan.
Presently there is no Kambithan there in Mannadi Kavu. The divine sword is resting beneath the water waiting for another Kambithan.

The historic sleeping stone hall is a quiet and beautiful place where we can see and appreciate the craftsmanship and skill of the ancient people

Kaambithaan is a legend who lives in the minds of Mannady people from the very beginning of Mannadi Devi Temple. The temple is beleived to be erected by one  Vakka Vanjippuzha Pandarathil, after finding devine presence on a rock in the lush green forest of Mannadi. After identifying the devinity of the rock, when poojas were offered, a bizarre man from nowhere appeared there and began to show extra human powers which the local people beleived to be of Godess Bhadra Kaali. He was since then devinely called Kaambithaan. He lived long and disappeared one day. Later another unknown man of such super human power appeared in the village who surprised everyone by diving into the depths of Kallada river and recovering some devine ornaments from there. People beleived that he is another embodiment of the old Kaambithaan and that the tradition of Kaabithaan associated with Devi will continue as long as Devi is there. Now there is no Kambithaan but people beleive that another Kaambithaan will soon appear. As the beleif of Kaambithaan is deep rooted, a memorial of him was constructed in the very same site where the last Kaambithaan dived into the river, called Kaambithaan Mandapam. The engravings on its walls show that it was constructed on ME 24-1- 1103 corresponding to English calender month September 9, 1927. This is a unique structure made of carved rock panels with foot prints beleived to of last Kaambithaan imprinted on.

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