The temple is dedicated to Varaha, the third avatar of Vishnu, who is positioned with Goddess Bhumi.

[2] Following the demise of his beloved son, for which he held himself responsible, a mentally disturbed Perumthachan, the great carpenter, through the course of his wanderings had reached Panniyur.

Weighed down by fatigue, hunger and thirst he had sought relief from the carpenters who had been then carrying out rejuvenation work at the Mahakshetram.

Having failed to identify the ‘Master’ of their profession, the workers quite conspicuously neglected him and afterwards broke for lunch without uttering even a single word to him.

He went inside the sanctum sanctorum where the carpenters had kept blocks of wood ready to be converted into columns.

When the workers returned, they quite unwarily sawed along the marks made by the ‘Master’; all the columns just fell short of their appropriate lengths.

Their careers and professions at stake, they suddenly realised that the ill-dressed man they had so criminally neglected at lunchtime was the master carpenter Perumthachan himself, and that it was he who caused all this turmoil.

They were woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of hammering and chiselling from inside the Sree Kovil.

They rushed inside to find that the old man had come back and that he had just finished adding the final touches to their pending work.

In order to defeat the scholastically superior Sukapuram, some of the Namboothiris of Panniyur went outside Kerala and brought their Guru to the Land of Varaha.

It is also believed that they started worshipping Goddess Varthali and practising some of the secret rites of Tantric Buddhism violating the directions of Lord Varaha.

Mahapundit Appath Adeeri had written his autobiography on pieces of copper around 600 years back, in which he has made his predictions for the future.

‘SANDHYA DEEPARADHANA’ is considered as the most auspicious time to seek the blessings of Sri Varahamurthy.

Covered in sandalwood paste and adorned in scintillating jewellery, the divine form of Sri Varahamurthy is for every mind to embrace and seek solace with.