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TIRUVOTTIYUR |
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Pattinathar's mother passed away at Kaverippoompattinam. Before Pattinathar could reach
there, his relatives removed her body to the cremation ground and started to set fire to
it. When Pattinathar arrived at the spot he removed all the firewood placed on his
mother's body. He placed plantain leaves instead and sang ten stanzas bewailing her death.
To the astonishment of all spectators, the green leaves caught fire at once. He performed
all the rituals and ceremonies for the obsequies to his mother and afterwards set out from
the place to visit all the shrines of Siva in the country.
At Tiruvarur, Pattinathar restored a dead man back to life. Then he came to a sacred place
known as Onsenai Mahalam. At that time a king by name Bhadragiri was ruling that part of
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