Panachickadu Saraswathi temple known as Dakshina Mookambika in South India   in Panachickadu village is about 11 km south east of Kottayam railay station.  Lord Mahavishnu is the main deity of the temple and considered as the guardian god of this locality and therefore the devotees  first worship Mahavishnu and then Devi Saraswathi, Ganapathy, Siva, Sasthavu and Yakshy in an order of priority and importance. Just lower on the Southern side of Sree Vishnu temple, there is a granite cut small saras with ever flowing water all around the year.  Moolavigraham, Prathista of Devi Saraswathi is underneath in the ‘Saras’ where more there is  neither Sreekovil nor Nalambalam as seen in a shrine.  The importance of Panachickadu temple is that there is no Saraswathy temple according to traditional concept apart from apparently a granite cut pond partly covered with a very rare creeper growing from time immemorial and never flowering or  bearing fruit, but still existing in the pond neither increasing nor decreasing in size but having thick vegitation round the year. The deity of Yakshy can be seen under the natural roof of Elangi and Ezhilam pala trees, covered by flowering creepers. Panachickadu Yakshi is famous for sudden pleasure and sudden displeasure on devotee. Trusteeship rests in Kizhippuram Karunad and Kaimukku Nampoothiri Illoms who are residents of Panachickadu for thousand of years. Once Kuzhippuram illom was without an ‘unni’ to carry the family tradition, the Karanavar (an elderly Nampoothiri) of the illom went to Mookambi at Kudajadri in Karnataka with an intention to worship Devi Mookambika seeking her blessing to get a son.  After having spent a few years in the temple worshiping Devi Mookambika, the old man  was much distressed and returned home. On this return at Panachickadu he put his ‘Olakuda’ in a place near the Kulikkadavu on the southern side of the temple and went to bathe in the spring.  After bath when he tried to take the umbrella he could not lift it as if it was fixed where it has been put.  In his confusion he thought he heard a voice telling him that Devi Mookambika was with him and that Devi had been  accompanying him on his umbrella all the way from Kudajadri.  He was told to take an idol which lay in the nearby forest and consecrate it in the place where his umbrella was put.  He was also told that he need not come over to Mookambika further as the devi had come with him. Saraswatha ghrutham purified and enriched with saraswathasooktham thousand times repeated is given to the devotees from the temple which is a medicine for boosting memory power by the grace of Devi. Devotees from all over Kerala are coming  here daily for worship irrespective of caste, creed and religion.  They bring their children for ‘Vidyarambhom’ on all days at any time except on Durgastami and Mahanavami.  Artists especially  vocalists and instrument players offer their art demonstration before  Devi Saraswathy as ‘vazhipadu’ every year especially during Navarathri.  Kerala artists of great esteem are devoted of  Devi.  A.R.Raja Raja Varma, Kerala Varma Valiya koil Thampuran, Ulloor S. Parameswar Iyer of olden times were devotees of Panachikkadu Devi.  It was also believed that the dumbness of A.R.Raja Raja Varma was cured by the grace of Devi and thereafter Mahakavi Ullur S. Parameswara Iyer recollects this incident in his poem. Thousands of literary men and artists all over Kerala enshrine and find an abode in front of Panachickadu Saraswathi Devi.  Therefore it is a unique centre of Pilgrimage.