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Pleased with their penance he blessed them with horns on their head with which
they could protect themselves by driving off their enemies. So this place came
to be known as Thayur or Amathur. The sthalapurana elaborates this with many
details.
The construction
of this shrine is quite odd and evokes wonder. Hence the Mother's sannidhi is
just opposite. the Lord's in contravention to the normal tradition of Mother's
shrine lying to the right side of her lord's sannidhi. Another awe-inspiring
feature that this shrine possesses is the existence of a round stone called
Vattapaarai situated to the northern side of the Mother's. It is worshipped as
Mother with unusual fervour; for there is a stone image of Nagendra with its
hood spread out over the head of Mother. She is very powerful and the temples
glory lies on this. People fed up with delay in the court ceases visit this
Vattapariamma and plead for adjudication. Being infinitely powerful, the lairs
and defaulters confess their guilt before her and readily show willingness to
abide by the conditions in the documents they set their hands to. If any
hard-core culprit resorts do dishonest means, sure a snake comes out from the
shrine and bites him at once.
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