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AZHAGAR KOIL |
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The water that
is used for conducting abhishekam to Azhagar should be brought first to this doorway and
the priest should swear that it is water brought from Noopura Ganga. When Azhagar makes
his annual
trip to Madurai to attend his sister Meenakshi's marriage, a
list showing the ornaments with which Azhagar is adorned and goes out of the temple is
read out before Karuppannaswami. When Azhagar returns to the temple, a similar check is
conducted. The keys of the treasury of the temple will be entrusted to Karuppanna - swami
every day in the night. There is a story connected
with this doorway. Once a king in Malabar wanted to take the idol of Azhagar to his place
for worship. He sent 18 people to Azhagarmalai to bring the idol. These people were well -
versed in Mantras and other religious rites and made an attempt to remove the idol. But
the temple priests who killed them and buried them under this entrance foiled their
attempt. Then the god who had come there accompanying them surrendered before the priests
and promised to guard the entrance from that day. This god is known as the "God of
the gate of eighteen steps". |
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