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Maheshwaram Sri Shivaparvathi temple belonging to a very remote village of
Thiruvananthapuram, It is known as across India and its fame is spreading far wide. The

temple is situated near Neyyanttinkara &Parassala in the district of Thiruvananthapuram.
Neyyanttinkara is famous of Sree Krishna temple also known as Guruvayur of south Kerala,
while centuries old Mahadeva temple of Parassala has conducted Athirudra Mahayajna almost
two decades back,and one of the famous Shiva temples of Thiruvananthapuram district.

At that time, Shiva parvathy temple owned by temple trusted was only a small temple, but
known as the far wide for its religious rituals, astrology and ‘ Parihara kriyas’ or solutions based
on tantric principles conducted by Brahmachari priest Swamy Maheshwarananda Saraswathy,

then known by the name
Krishnankutty.People from other districts
also used to visit the temple to solve their
family issues and other problems, for
prosperity and fulfil their goals and dreams
through hindu tantric rituals. But now the
architecture of the temple has placed its
name in the culture map of Shiva temples
of India.

Suprising facts behind this newly
renovated Shivaparvathi temple doesn’t
end here.

The Shivalingam at Chenkal broke the
world record of the highest Shivalingam of

the world, previously held by
Kotilingeshwara temple in the village of
the Kammasandra in Kolar district,
Karnataka. It has a measuring height of 108
feet (33 m) which was a world record, later
broken by Chenkal Mahadeva- parvathi
temple of Kerala.

The six stories of Shivalingam are constructed on the basis of the 6 chakras or energy
centres of the body – Muladhara, Swadishtana, Manipura, Anahatha, Vishuddha, and Ajna. As
per the astrological predictions, the temple is Svayambhoo and 5000 years old, which might be
demolished because of some natural calamities.