in ancient times, the temple had 54,000 para paddy fields (punja nilam). the soldiers of the chembakassery raja killed a unni of the changazhimuttam madom family at venattukara in kuttanad, who had gone there to gauge the "pata nelu" of devaswom. the brahmins of temple urazhma installed a brahma rakshas in the temple to satisfy the brahma rakshas of changazhimattum unni. additionally a hanging tree was erected in front of the rakshas shrine and the statue of raja of chembakassery was hanged. but later, these forms were removed in the late 19th century. chempakassery raja offered pujas to the temple as a sign of repentance for killing unni. raja appointed the members of the thiruvenkathapuram warrior as the heirs of "panthiradi choru".