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It
has a long legend and the origin dates back to the subhasamaya of Muruga's
stepping foot on this holy Sivagiri. Puranas are replete with elaborate accounts
of its beginning, efficacy and several types of it. According to them, the time
of Murugan's leaving Kailas strangely coincided with the completion of
Agasthya's penance in this place. Deciding to move further down, he bade his as
assistant Idumban to follow him carrying both Sivagiri and Satyagiri
hills.
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that mighty giant it was a child's play and did so at once. Tying them to kavadi
he started, but he found the Satyagiri hill floating in the air, He placed big
boulders' over it to balance, but could not On examination, he found a little
urchin who no other than Muruga sitting on Sivagiri. He ordered him to go at
once. But the adamancy of Muruga and Idumban's perseverance ended in the death
of the latter. Advised by the Agasthya Mahamuni, Murugan besides breathing life
into him made him his dwarpalaka with commendable compassion Carrying kavadi
began then thus, later it spread to several temples.
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