Kalady, Kerala

 Kalady

Kalady is a town in Angamaly east of the Periyar River in the Ernakulam region of Kerala, India, not far from Cochin International Airport. It is known as the place of origin of the eighth-century Indian scholar Adi Shankara and is a well-known destination for Hindu scholars. Kalady gained notable quality only after its rediscovery in the late nineteenth century by the then Shankaracharya of Sringeri and the resulting canonization of an Adi Shankara shrine in 1910.

The century of Kalady was honored in May 2010 and the story of its rediscovery a hundred years ago was captured in a film by the Sringeri Sharada Peetham. The Kalady Kadavu is the place where the waterway was built and where Kalady was conceived. It was also the place where Shankara had first performed Aaraattu, a waterway shower symbolizing his tribal god, before introducing it in his ebb and flow area. For quite some time now, the Aarattu has been completed amidst the festivities at the Sree Krishna temple at this ghat.