Mal: ഹരിപ്പാട് harippāṭ
‘Green Ricefields’ Town, Kerala.
From Mal: hari ‘green’; and pāṭam/pāḍam/pāṭu ‘(range of) ricefields’, ‘rice-land’.
Haripad is nicknamed ‘Town of Temples’. The two most famous ones are the Subrahmanya Swamy temple and Mannarasala Temple (see Mannarsala).
The 3-day Payippadu Vallam Kali snake boat races [Mal: vaḷḷam, ‘canoe’, ‘boat made of one trunk’; and kaḷi, ‘play’, ‘game’] are held annually on Payippadu Lake [Mal: payi, ‘green’] near Haripad (see Aranmula).
The Sree Subrahmanya Swamy Temple in Haripad Balagopal.k