Mathilakam is a village in Kodungallur taluk, Thrissur district in Kerala, South India.

[1] The shrine was also known as the Kunavayir Kottam, the monastery of Ilamko Atikal (the author of the Tamil epic Chilappathikaram).

[1] The temple has been highly eulogized in the Tamil Shaiva literature of Tevaram as early as the 7th century CE.

The coins bear the familiar Chola characteristics, viz., the standing king on one side and the seated goddess on the other.

[2] In 2020, the Archaeological Survey of India granted licence to a non-profit trust to undertake excavations in Mathilakam.