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The Brahmin Priests perform the poojas in worship of the Arathil Devis as the presiding deity and Pazhassi Devi as her subordinate. For the other two Devis and for the Devas Shree Sasthappan, gulikan and Vishnumoorthy separate abodes are built and thier idols are installed. It was decided then that the Thira festival will be held in the Malayalam month of Meenam on 13th ,14th and 15th (March 27th, 28th and 29th) This has been ongoing without any interruption ever since very smoothly. The same team who conducts the thira festival of Arathil Sree Bhadrapuram Temple also is conducting this Thira festival of these 4 Bhagavathis and Sree Bhootham.

Since the day Arathil Bhagavathy took over as the protector and guardian of the family in her multifaceted guises as vivid as Mahalakshmi, Saraswathi and Sree Parvathi, she had been blessing the locality and the Arathil family and the prosperity, popularity and wealth of both have spiralled sky high day by day.

At this period, the male members of the family had indulged in encroachment of the lands that belonged to the Kottayam royal family and started cultivating these lands which came into their custody. Enraged by this aggressive action by the Arathil Candoth men,the King sent his men to summon the elder of the family.With a tone of arrogance and hostility that they were capable of at that goldern era of the family, the elders sent back King's men saying that they need not have to run at th beck and call of the king as the family deity, the Arathil Bhagavathi, is one and only Supreme head for them and that they do not acknowledge the supremacy of the King.

On hearing this provocative answer to his summons, flaming with anger, the King was closeted with ministers discussing the ways to imprison the Arathil elders, when information came that certain untoward incidents befell the family. Upon hearing this, the King sent his messengers to bring the palace Astrologers to find out the reason for this inauspicious developments.

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