Pokkunny Siva Temple

Pokkunny Siva Temple is an ancient Shiva temple at Vadavannur village in Alathur taluk, Palakkad district, and one of the 108 famous Shiva temples of Kerala. It was built by the king of Kollengode, once called Venganad, whose rulers led over a thousand Nair families of the area and held this deity, Vadavannoor Thevar, as their favourite.

Legend says Parashurama installed the Shiva linga in the pond, the Perumkulam, to calm the god's fierce nature; elsewhere a deity merely faces a pond for the same reason, but here the temple stands in the vast pond itself, reached along one side of what was once the temple tank.