Karumadikkuttan

For the Malayalam film, see Karumadikkuttan (film).

Karumadikkuttan (Malayalam: കരുമാടിക്കുട്ടൻ), literally 'boy from Karumady', is a famous three-foot-tall black granite Buddha statue located in the village of Karumadi, in the Ambalappuzha taluk of Alappuzha district, Kerala, India. It is believed to date from the 9th to 14th century.

The statue was long forgotten—abandoned in a nearby stream called Karumady Thodu—until the 1930s, when Sir Robert Bristow, a colonial British engineer, discovered and preserved it. It is now protected by the Kerala state government. The left side of the statue is missing, and the causes remain uncertain.

The Dalai Lama visited the site in 1965.

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