Amma was not to be denied, and particularly not humiliated as the mother of traitors. She herself took her case to the Raja himself, and upon realizing the grave injustice done to this magnificent noble woman by his men, she was compensated with substantial tax free properties that span from Karipuza to Karthikppally and Kayamkulam to Haripad.

Amma’s initial encampments were always under the same Banyan tree (Aal) during her piligrimages and upon her settlement in Valiakuzi, her new house came to be known as Alummoottil, which later became our Tharavad name. During subsequent years of turmoil and consolidations, Panthalam and Kayamkulam got absorbed along with other smaller territories into the Travancore kingdom. Reasons are unknown, but Vallabhasseri Tharavad decayed and there is virtually nothing left of it.

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