This temple is at Parakodu in Pathanamthitta district. The temple is believed to be hundreds of years old. The Goddess is considered to be in the form in which she came back after annihilating Darika.  Many centuries ago, smallpox spread in the area killing many people. The people believed that this happened because the Goddess was angry. No temples were dedicated to the Goddess in that part in those days. The seniormost member of the Aaruvelil family sent an emissary to the Kodumgalloor Devi temple and got a Brahmin to come to his place. He made the Brahmin more perform the poojas to please the Goddess and the disease was brought under control. When this Brahmin youth returned home he took a girl from that family as his wife. They had a son. But within a few years, the Brahmin died. In those days people believed that having a widow stay in the house would bring a curse on the family. Life in her husband’s house was becoming more and more difficult. The woman could do nothing other than go and pray to the Goddess in the temple. She wanted to go back to her own house. One day when she was sitting under the banyan tree in the temple with her son, an old woman approached them. She told the young woman that she could understand her difficulties and promised to help her go back to her house. The old woman was none other than the Goddess. The next day she started for Aaruvelil house in the company of the retinue of the Goddess. When they reached her house, the old woman sent the woman and her son to her house and said that she would rest in the Kalari. When the elders of the family came to know about all this, they came to the Kalari to welcome the old woman. But she was not there. Coming to know that the old woman was the Goddess of Kodungalloor, they consecrated her there. The retinue of the Goddess who had come with them was consecrated in and around the Aavaruvelil Kalari.