Muttarakkal

One of the main offerings at Shri kshetra vanadurga parvathi Temple is muttarakkal. “Muttu” means ”obstacle” and “Arukkal “ means “to cut”. So muttarakkal literally means to “cut away any obstacles”. The obstacles may be of many forms, it could be illness, an obstacle to good health, lack of business growth, obstacles due to bad influences etc. There are very many predefined obstacles for which this offering could be done by the devotee.The Muttarakkal will commence at 5 AM and will continue till all the receipts issued from the Devaswom counter till 11 AM is completed. The only breaks will come while Nivedyam and Poomoodal is being performed and will restart after these poojas. In case there are too many Muttarukkal receipts, the Nada will not close in the afternoon. On normal days in the evening Muttarukkal will start at 3:30 PM. A coconut, after removing its husk is given to the priest with the devotee’s name and birth star in Malayalam and the priest in turn breaks this coconut in front of the deity.