Karppillikkavu Sree Mahadev Temple

The Karppillikkavu Sree Mahadeva Temple is a Siva temple in India. The specialty of this temple is that the deity have been done giving dharshan to western side. This temple is situated in Manjapra village in Ernakulam District of Kerala. The deity of the Siva is in the Sankalppa of Kirathamoorthy that is Vettakkaran. It is also the legend is that Prathishta has been done by Kartavirya Arjuna.

The legend also goes in this line that this temple first was having the prathishta of Sri Devi but when Karthyaveerarjuna came to temple to do dharshan of Sri Devi's sannidhaya was not there and so he conducted Prathishta of Siva in the temple and he staid in the cave constructed by him in the northern side of temple and he spend much of time doing siva dhyanam.

Source: Wikipedia